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PREFACE. 



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TN the preparation of this work, the author endeavors to 
^ set before the minds of the teachers and students prin- 
ciples and questions which have a tendency to awaken 
thought and suggestion. Sixteen years of school-room life 
have taught the author many useful lessons concerning 
methods of examination. It is earnestly hoped that the 
work will prove a source of pleasure and profit to those 
who study it. Many of the questions will, no doubt, be 
criticized as being too difficult and impracticable ; to those 
who offer such criticism, the author kindly would say, " In 
your examination of the work do not become obnoxious 
by being hypercritical, but be just and "imprejudiced in 
giving your criticism of the matter." The questions 
(original and contributed) are, in the author's opinion, 
philosophical, important, and practical ; questions, the 
principles of which daily test the ability of the young 
teacher in the school-room, are considered by many of our 
leading educators fair and appropriate. The work is a com- 
plete handbook for Superintendents, Principals, Teachers, 
and Students. Any one whose duty has been to prepare 
different sets of examination questions, is well aware that 
it requires time, care, study, decision, and judgment, so 

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that the queries shall be a fair test of the ability of the 
teachers or students. The author is desirous to have his 
many days of labor on the work appreciated, and to have 
the questions serve the purpose for which they are designed : 

1. That they present a tfue and impartial dN^xd^g^ of the 
test to which our teachers are subjected. 

2. That they will be found profitable to those who 
undergo examinations, because the solving of them will 
fasten the essential points in the English branches. 

3. That Superintendents, Principals of Normal and 
Public Schools, will find them indispensable. 

4. That the miscellaneous arrangement of most of the 
questions will have a tendency to imbue the mind with 
versatility. 

With the above for its mission, the work, an exhaustive 
manual of the English branches, goes forth inspiring the 
teacher with a higher, freer, and broader feeling for his 
profession. 

Acknowledgments. 

The author has been kindly favored by the following 
persons, of whom he takes great pleasure thus to publicly 
express his grateful acknowledgments. Prof. Calvin 
Townsend, for the use of his very valuable Analysis of the 
Constitution of the United States ; Mr. Townsend's ex- 
cellent work on Civil Government will greatly assist the 
student in obtaining the proper results to questions on 
Civil Government in this work (see Mr. Townsend's Civil 
Government). Hon. Benson J. Lossing, for valuable 
questions on U. S. History (see Lossing's U. S. History). 



PREFACE. ix 

Messrs. Cowperthwait & Co., for the use of the best topical 
analysis on U. S. History known to the author (see Berard's 
U. S. History). John H. French, LL.D., Principal In- 
diana State Normal, Pa. ; Prof. J. A. Brush, Mt. Union 
College, Ohio ; Prof. A. Burtt, Pittsburgh ; Miss Ralston, 
Pittsburgh ; Mrs. J. R. Spiegel, Prof. J. H. Rychman, 
Greensburg; Dr. George T. MacCord, Pittsburgh; W. H. 
Morrow, Manor Station, Pa. ; Prof. W. H. Ellsworth, New 
York, and others. 

References. 

The author consulted the leading and latest text-books 
on the subjects in \\\q work. On Arithnetic. — Brooks, 
French, Robinson, Ray, Hagar, White, Bonnycastle, Olney, 
Milne, Quackenbos, Greenleaf, Goff, Felter, Thompson, 
Dean, Singer, and many others. On English Grammar and 
Language. — Goold Brown, Fowler, Whitney, Bain, Siglar, 
Kerl, Green, Harvey, Quackenbos, Hart, Swinton, etc. 
On Geography. — Maury, Geike, Houston, Warren, Harper, 
Colton, Guyot, etc. On Orthography and Elocution. — 
Goold Brown, Holbrook, Wright, Shoemaker, Fenno, 
Lawrence, etc. On Literature. — Hart, Coppee, Westlake, 
Shaw, etc. On Theory and Practice. — Bain, Holbrook, 
Spenser, Wickersham, Hill, Johonnot, Hart, Blackie, 
Phelps, Page, Bates, Payne, Russel, etc. 

J. R. S. 

Greensburg, Pa., June, 1879. 




CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTER I. 



Orthography, 



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CHAPTEH II. 



Reading, 



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CHAPTER III. 



Penmanshu', 



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CHAPTER IV. 

Arithmetic — Principles, . 
Arithmetical Problems, . 



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CHAPTER V. 



^ Geography, . 



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CHAPTER VI. 



Grammar, 



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CHAPTER VII. 

History of the United States, 



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xii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEFv VIII. 

t'AGE. 

Theory and Practice of Teaching, .... 226 



CHAPTER IX. 
Civil Government, . . 237 

CHAPTER X. 

History of Pennsylvania, 262 

CHAPTER XI. 

Literature, 271 

CHAPTER XII. 
Draaving, . .283 

CHAPTER XIII. 
Analysis of Sentences, 289 





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Live Questions 

ON THE ENGLISH BRANCHES. 



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CHAPTER I. 

Orthog.raphy. 

1. What does the word Orthography mean? 

2. Of what does Orthography treat ? 

3. What does Orthography embrace ? 

4. What term or terms are synonymous with ( )rthography ? 

5. What does the word Spelling mean ? 
G. What is Spelling? 

7. What difference is there between Orthography and 

Spelling? 

8. Why are there so many exceptions to the rules of 

Spelling ? 

9. What is a rule in Spelling? 

10. To what kind of words generally are rules applicable? 

11. Give the rule that relates to '' ei'' and ''/<?." 

12. Give the rule that relates to "■ ceous''' and '•^ ciousy 

13. What does Orthoepy mean ? 

14. Of what does Orthoepy treat ? 

15. What difference is there between Orthography and 

Orthoepy ? 

16. Is Orthoepy a division of Grammar ? 

17. Is the order Orthography, Orthoepy, Spelling, natural ? 

18. What does the word Phonology mean ? 

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14 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

19. What is Phonology? 

20. Is the order Orthography, Phonology, Orthoepy, 

natural ? 

21. What does Orthoepy embrace? 

22. Define syllabication. 

23. Define accentuation. 

24. Define pronunciation. 

25. What does Etymology mean ? 

26. Of what does Etymology treat ? 

27. What difference is there between Etymology and ()r- 

thogeny ? 

28. What does the word Orthogeny mean ? 
20. Of what does Orthogeny treat? 

30. Taking into consideration the terms Orthography, Ety- 

mology, Orthogeny, and Orthoepy, in what order 
should they come ? 

31. What is a letter? 

32. What is the power of a letter? 

33. What do letters represent ? 

34. What do silent letters show? 

35. What is a mute? 

36. What is the difference between a silent letter and a 

mute ? 

37. Why do we have mutes ? 

38. If ^'^" were not a mute in the word gape, what would 

be the result ? 

39. If "<f" final were not silent, name the result. 

40. What is the base of a syllable ? 

41. What is the antecedent of a syllable? 

42. What is the consequent of a syllable? 

43. What is a syllable ? 

44. What does the word syllable mean ? 

45. Who first divided letters into vowels and consonants ? 

46. What is a vowel ? 

47. What is a consonant? 

48. How are consonants divided ? 



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49. Define vocality. 

50. Define a vocal, a subvocal, an aspirate. 

51. What is the difference between a tonic and an atonic ? 

52. Define a shade vowel. 

53. To what does a consonant belong ? 

54. Before we can pronounce words correctly of what must 

we have a correct knowledge ? 

55. What is distinct articulation ? 

56. Is spelling a synthetic or an analytic process? and is 

polysyllable a polysyllable ? 

57. If synthetic, why? 

58. What do you mean by word-parsing ? 

59. Define phonetic spelling. 

6(1. What is the sound of a letter? 

61. Which is first — tlfe sound or the letter? 

62. Give your method of teaching primary pupils plionetic 

spelling. 

63. Give your method of teaching primary pupils pronun- 

ciation. 

64. What is sound ? Do you know its rate of travel ? 

65. How is sound produced ? 

QQ. What do we mean by the organs of speech? 

67. Name the articulatory organs. 

68. Define the use of the articulatory organs. 

69. Name the vocal organs. 

70. Name the respiratory organs. 

71. Define an articulate sound. 

72. What difference is there between a voiced sound and 

a vocal sound ? 

73. What is the difference between a compound vocal and 

a simple vocal ? 

74. What are alphabetic equivalents ? 

75. What is the difference between alphabetic substitutes 

and alphabetic equivalents ? 

76. Define a coalescent sound. 

77. What are dentals ? and name them. 



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78. What are labials? Name them. 

79. What are palatals ? Name them. 

80. What are Unguals ? Name them. 

81. What are liquids? Name them. 

82. Why are certain letters called liquids ? 

83. How are dentals, labials, Unguals, jjalatals, nasals, and 

gutturals produced ? 

84. What difference is there between a subvocal sound and 

a continuant ? 

85. Is a liquid a continuant ? 

86. Is a nasal a continuant ? 

87. What discrimination do you make between a liquid 

and a nasal ? 

88. A spoken word is the sign of what ? 

89. Letters are signs of what ? 

90. Which letters are never silent? 

91. Is ";//'' ever silent? 

92. Is "/" ever a consonant? 

98. When are "?£'" and " y" taken as vowels? 

94. What is a diphthong ? 

95. Define a triphthong ; trigraph ; digraph. 

96. What difference is there between a diphthong and di- 

graph ? 

97. Is an improper diphthong the same as a digraph ? 

98. Is there any difference between a trigraph and triph- 

thong ? 

99. How are trii)hthongs divided ? 

100. What do you mean by the name of a letter? 

101. Show that some letters have several powers each. 

102. Give examples of long vowels; short vowels; shade 

vowels ; diphthongs ; triphthongs ; coalescents ; 
explodents ; continuants. 
108. What do you mean by an inseparable root? 

104. Define the terms radical; prefix; sufiftx. 

105. What is the office of a prefix or suffix, or both? 

106. Define primitive, derivative, and compound words. 



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107. What do you mean by elements of language ? 

108. Is ''//" ever a consonant? if so, give example. 
100. What is our chief guide in syllabication ? 

110. Give the rules of syllabication, and example under 

each rule. 

111. How many forms has a letter ? 

1 12. Why do we call certain letters Roman ? 

113. When were Roman letters first used ? 

1 14. Give the different uses of italics. 

1 15. How are italics used in the Bible? 

1 IG. Define the terms diphthong; triphthong; digraph; 
trigraph ; monosyllable ; dissyllable ; trisyllable ; 
polysyllable. 

117. What is the essential part of a syllable ? 

1 18. How is a vowel modified ? 

119. Are correlatives and cognates the same ? 

120. What are correlatives sometimes called ? 

121. A word with reference to its significant parts must 

contain what ? 

122. Does inflection affect the part of speech and the es- 

sential meaning of the word ? 

123. The complex nomenclature of explodents, continu- 

ants, serials, tonics, subtonics, atonies, obstructed, 
unobstructed, etc., which has grown up of late 
years, originated how ? 

124. Name the semivowels. 

125. What is the larynx ? 

126. How do you distinguish the aspirate "//;" from the 

subvocal ''///" / 

127. How many diphthongs are there ? 

128. Spell phonetically the following words : alien ; rhet- 

oric ; column; weight; avoirdupois; ascension; 
sovereign ; nephew ; jewel ; quartz ; question ; buy ; 
isle ; fusion ; glazier ; azure ; razure. 

129. Give a word containing the medial sound of "(7." 

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130. What disposition does syllabication make when two 

vowels come together ? 

131. How many and what sounds do "<?" and ''//:" repre- 

sent ? 

132. Name the ways words are designated. 

133. Are there any letters that have no substitute ? 

134. Is reproof a derivative ? 

135. Give examples in which /, /', //, c, b, n, g/i, /, w, s, 

cJi, g, p, d, are silent. 

136. Parse ^'■suicide'' as you have been taught. 

137. Give the substitutes that respectively belong to the 

following letters and combinations : the broad, 
sharp, and flat sounds of a ; the first and short of 
e, of/, 0, 11, ng, s,f, z, w, zJi, ch, k, s/i, t, y, v,j. 

138. Show that our alphabet is both defective and redun- 

dant. 

139. Why have we two accents? 

140. Accent sometimes serves to distinguish what ? 

141. What do we mean by ultimate, penult, antepenult, 

preantepenultimate ? 

142. In dissyllabic verbs, where is the accent ? 

143. What difference is there between an elementary sound 

and a simple oral sound ? 

144. What do we mean by linguo-jdentals ; linguo-nasals ; 

palato-nasals ? Tell also with what articulate or- 
gans they are made. 

145. What are double consonants ? 

146. What do you mean by discriminative accent? 

147. Define emphatic accent. 

148. Define poetic accent. 

149. What difference is there between enunciation and 

pronunciation ; between articulation and accentu- 
ation ; between accent and accentuation ? 
100. Give an example illustrating the four sounds of 'V." 

151. When has ''/" the sound of ''z/" ? 

152. Which consonant represents one sound ? 



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153. Can all the letters of the English alphabet be em- 

ployed as vowels ? 

154. On what is the classification of labials, de?itals, pala- 

tals, and nasals founded ? 

155. How do you spell the names of the last ten letters of 

the alphabet ? 
158. Where did we get the term alphabet? 

157. When should we use capitals in composition ? 

158. What disposition do you make of consonants in divid- 

ing words into syllables ? 

159. When should we use the hyphen, and when not, in the 

formation of compound words ? 

160. In the word queen, is '■''uee'" a triphthong? 

161. Is there any differeiice between a primitive and rad- 

ical word ? 

162. Can you mention words in which final 'V " is dropped 

on taking a suffix beginning with a consonant ? 
168. Why is final ^'.r" never doubled ? 

164. What is a word ? 

165. Give what you think is the best method of teaching 

spelling. 

166. How can pupils be taught to utter with distinctness 

and ease the many vowel and consonant sounds ? 

167. Has "^" ever the sound of '' sh'' ? 

168. Explain the sounds of ".v." 

169. Why have we more elementary sounds than letters ? 

170. What sound has "^ " preceded by '';;/," in the same 

syllable ? 

171. When has "^/" the sound of ''/" / 

172. In the words coil and float, which has a digraph ? 

173. In the words beauteous and buoyancy, which has the 

proper and which the improper trigraph ? 

174. Name all the diphthongs. 

175. Why have we different sounds for "^" in the words 

go and giant I 

176. How many sounds has the combination '•'■ough'''' / 



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177. Has 'V ever its natural sound ? 

178. What do we mean by orthographic substitutes? 

179. What difference do you make between the parsing of 

a word and analyzing a word ? 

180. When is a consonant antecedent or consequent to a 

vowel ? 

181. Name the prefixes of '' ^," of ^'," of "r," of'/." 

182. Give meaning of prefixes that begin with ;//, n, o, p, 

q, r, s, t, u, w. 
18o. Name all the suffixes you can, and give their mean- 
ings. 

184. Name the abbreviations now in use. 

185. Name expressions which, by the consent of custom, 

you can abbreviate. 

186. Name the different styles of letters. 

187. State the use of diaeresis. 

188. What are sibilant sounds ? Give example. 

189. In dissyllabic nouns, where is the accent ? 

190. What is a sentence ; paragraph; chapter? 

191. Why are words classified, inflected, and derived? 

192. What do you mean by classifying words ? 

193. What is it to inflect words? 

194. To derive words is what ? 

195. What is a spoken word ? 

196. What is a written word ? 

197. Give rule for 'V" final, and name exceptions. 

198. Give rule when "^" final is retained. Give excep- 

tions. 

199. Give rule for " j' " final. Give exceptions. 

200. Give rule when ''y" final is not changed. Give few 

exceptions. 

201. Give rule for final consonant. Name the exceptions. 

202. Give rule when final consonant is not doubled. Name 

some exceptions. 

203. Give rules for words containing "<?/" or ''/>." 

204. Give rule for words ending with '■'■ ceoiis'" or '■'■ cious.'''' 



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205. Give rule when we should use ^^ able,'''' and when 

'' ibler 
20(). (jive rule for final ''/" of a radical word. 

207. (rive rule for words ending in "/" or "/^." 

208. (jive rule for words ending in "/^," preceded by a 

consonant. 

209. Give rule for words ending in '■'■ ble,"" before the suf- 

fixes '^//j'" and '' ities:' 

210. Give rule for words ending in any other consonants 

than f, /, or s. Name exceptions. 

211. What is the rule for monosyllables ending in/, /, or s? 

212. What is the rule for words ending in 'V;-" or "c-r" ? 
218. Give methods how you would put the above rules into 

practice. 

214. At what stage in the course of our common-school 

studies would you have your pupils commit and 
practice the above rules ? 

215. Name the different methods of teaching spelling. 
210. Which do you prefer, the written or oral method ? 

217. Is spelling a gift or an ac([uisition ? 

218. What do you mean by vocalic consonants? 
210. What do you mean by consonantal vowels? 

22(1. What history do we observe in the words heathen ; 
pagan ; sacrament ; legend ; leopard ; Methodist ; 
tribulation : tantalize ; whig ; tory ; silhouette ; 
knave; share; shear: stock; post; ringleader; 
panic ; nun ? 

221. Give examples of final cognates. 

222. What do you mean by one impulse of the voice ? 
22H. Are the sounds of a language fewer than its words ? 

224. In how many different ways can the letters of the al- 

phabet be combined ? 

225. What name is 'given to the sound of a letter? and 

what epithet to a letter not sounded ? 

226. How are words distinguished in regard to species and 

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227. Why is it difficult to learn to spell accurately ? 

228. Why should the different sorts of letters be ke])t dis- 

tinct ? 

229. What is said of the slanting strokes in Roman letters ? 

230. For what purpose are italics chiefly used ? 



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WOEDS FOE TEAOHEES AND ADVANCED STUDENTS. 



[In the following list the words are purposely left without being 
divided into syllables, and without accentuation, in (^der to recpiire 
the student or teacher to make a faithful use of the dictionary. The 
words marked with an "'^ are spelled by Wel)ster in two ways.] 



flagitious 


stiver 


innocuous 


beatific 


apostasy 


paraffin e 


amorphous 


generic 


hoeing 


disciplinable 


erectable 


acquiescent 


impassable 


stoicism 


available 


impassible 


deceivable 


trachea 


pageantry 


levigable 


ghoul 


feaze 


kino 


codicil 


grandiloque 


traditionary 


collision 


enrolment 


desecration 


carnelian 


rhus 


opacity 


teal 


Russ 


bequeathable 


tonguy 


laureate 


Arabs 


colonel 


need 


saltatory 


curule 


impanelled* 


indictable 


tingeing 


vetoes 


wrapped 


stolon 


fillipeen 


invincible 


tilbury 


leech 


rigger 


manakin 



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clarify 


rigor 


effervesce 


sachem 


halcyon 


habiliment 


chromatology 


zoology 


pirouette 


responsible 


albeit 


caesura 


decedent 


increasable 


crucible 


practicable 


langsyne 


eggnog 


mortgage 


couchant 


fatiguing 


mortise 


adscititious 


predicable 


leasable 


expunge 


crucifixion 


abstruse 


moly 


/ orbicular 


breathable 


miscegenation 


girandole 


contemptible 


morter 


bendable 


horoscope 


faubourg 


demean 


desuetude 


pelican 


prochein 


coaled 


eudiometer 


soprani 


seducible 


tarpaulin 


burgher 


susceptible 


espionage 


oxygenize 


spheroidal 


convalesce 


calligraphy 


cicerone 


caviling"^ 


catechumen 


tableaux 


naphtha 


chamois 


regatta 


ferret 


barrelled 


bowlder 


mercurial 


hortatory 


dutiable 


cassock 


tassel 


enticeable 


intelligible 


Wissahickon 


wite 


Bordeaux 


vignette 


bleyme 


Carlisle 


crochet 


Hungarians 


Milwaukee 


weevil 


cincture 


whetstone 


Wilkesbarre 


tautog 


stellular 


inimical 


apiary 


Pyrenees 


unprecedented 


membranaceous 


unique 


upholsterer 


distributable 


unsophisticated 


transmissible 


surable 


thyme 


tonsil 


blase 


tittle-tattle 


transom 


weird 


tympanum 


vestige 


pamperos 


trachea 


trisyllable 



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tabefy 


tongue-tied 


stampede 


recitative 


trepanning 


surfeit 


pavilion 


vedette 


macerate 


indict 


vicissitude 


sturgeon 


asinine 


trundle-bed 


tapioca 


fossilized 


teetotaler 


scarlatina 


corporeal 


scion 


scallop 


ferrule 


vaccination 


recipe 


catalepsy 


schedule 


sloe 


defecation 


slough 


sardonyx 


decapitate 


sough 


sanguineous 


celibacy 


salt-cellar 


solace 


scissure 


salt-rheum 


riffraff 


pecuniary 


pantalets 


parade 


novitiate 


pannier 


psychology 


vitiate 


pigeon-hole 


palaver 


coruscate 


purlieu 


Madeira 


Mauch Chunk 


punctilious 


opodeldoc 


archaeology 


pamphleteer 


onslaught 


Rhode Island 


mahogany 


phoenix 


balustrade 


marmalade 


matrass 


sorghum 


orang-outang 


Buenos Ayres 


Terre Haute 


pharynx 


rutabaga 


Schuylkill 


tenderloin 


Richelieu 


Bryn Mawr 


Dubuque 


Voltaire 


Susquehanna 


Shanghai 


Thiers 


wherry 


Poughkeepsie 


Robespierre 


whey 


Gennesaret 


De Stael 


wiseacre 


Alsace 


D'Aubigne 


verbena 


Hawaii 


Dumas 


pharmacology 


Prairie-du-Chien 


oryx 


wry 


Cincinnati 


onyx 


nadir 


desideratum 


kinnikinic 


naiad 


ragout 


gladwyn 


holocaust 


gyration 


auscultation 


mediccval 


guttural 


Ascii 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 



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irrepealable 

putrescence 

courageous 

core 

Corsicans 

boweled 

manumitted 

surfeited 

poignancy 

crevasse 

scallion 

ta'en 

vitrify 

amphiscii 

sphericity 

cerement 

vive 

imageable 

marveled* 

gyratory 

exorcise 

eider 

cense 

zymotic 

lattice 

pyramidal 

marrier 

fauxpas 

caravansarv 

latticing 

teleology 

absonant 

paroxysm 

pendency 

marten 

pyrites 



snnoom^' 

enamelar''' 

commutation 

feoffment 

chateau 

debouch 

cecity 

Maltese 

douceur 

cuddle 

imperceptible 

meeter 

divorceable 

vermicelli 

asphyxia 

trichina 

assiduity 

noticeable 

sewage 

remissible 

doubtable 

ryot 

intestable 

mackerel 

Russians 

equipoise 

pollen 

rosette 

asphaltum 

enamelist 

gallego 

repressible 

circumambient 

sequestrate 

liable 

canticle 



jomery 

titillation 

immolation 

pinnacle 

sanguigenous 

impertinence 

abluent 

vassalage 

displaceable 

appurtenant 

popinjay 

millennial 

pellucid 

excruciate 

salmagundi 

syzygies 

neuralgia 

nausea 

quizzical 

quandary 

cursory 

geology 

amphiscians 

mumm 

fiduciary 

Shibboleth 

phaeton 

anacreontic 

lyrical 

resuscitate 

lazaretto 

unfeigned 

inscriptible 

hare's-lettuce 

trunnion 

companionable 



26 



LIV E q UESTIO NS. 



ticdouloiireiix 


anserine 


asphyxia 


contumely 


whorler 


reciprocity 


lac 


stoup 


laurelled 


rescission 


sarsaparilla 


polyanthus 


roed 


. abrade 


connascent 


empiricist 


inveigh 


antiscorbutic 


porphyry 


scintillation 


sacerdotal 


scythe 


cache 


porpoise 


equinoctial 


silicious 


distrait 


hurr 


stisable 


arguable 


shoeing 


encore 


spatial 


deglutition 


edify 


chirology 


depravation 


herculean 


prestable 


quahaug 


epaulet* 


consonants 


barbecue 


reprehensible 


distraught 


vaticination 


amphitheatre 


metallurgy 


pinnace 


pleurisy 


malign 


spontaneous 


metonymy 


leased 


benignly 


collation 


endable 


acidity 


Sicilians 


aneurism 


periphery 


pomace 


sequacious 


dreadnaught 


scandalous 


ceaselessly 


licentiate 


lavender 


phosphate 


tumefy 


cosset 


stationery 


gelatine 


bodice 


eructation 


cavatina 


frees 


seniority 


aiguillette 


quidnunc 


tambourine 


irrefragable 


dividable 


hyacinth 


gayety 


indiscreet 


inferrible 


foliaceous 


ranchero 


mementos 


cereal 


marcessible 


valance 


paschal 


disposable 


cognizance 


sapphire 


isolation 


perspicacious 


monomania 


abridgment 


precarious 


crustaceology 


fusibility 


lichen 


exacerbate 


parvenu 


subsidiary 



ORTHOGRAPHY 



27 



alliteration 


Bohemians 


beryl 


adolescent 


punctilious 


sirloin 


sous 


selvedge • 


chameleon 


Sardinians 


litharge 


fossilize 


hereditament 


soidisant 


eradicable 


fuzz 


kiosk 


teel-seed 


psychology 


idyl 


Saracen 


avoirdupois 


tangible 


indigenous 


cumin 


advisable 


' putrefy 


corpuscle 


mesdames 


cooly* 


damageable 


maggot 


on-dit 


channeled 


whur 


clyster 


joust 


rupee 


asafoetida 


seditious 


rectilineal 


calefy 


frieze 


curvilinear 


tubercle 


aid-de-camp 


caviled''' 


heliochromy 


hiccough 


abeyance 


meerschaum 


querl 


e'en 


expiree 


aegis 


trammeled 


dentilated 


cuir 


warily 


gutta-percha 


crucible 


allegation 


satrap 


tracked 


alligation 


cavalcade 


tract 


effaceable 


perceivable 


diaphanous 


shagreen 


permeable 


thermology 


precocity 


classify 


liquefy 


duelling 


controvertible 


iridium 


phalanx 


auricular 


resultant 


empaneled 


revertible 


covetous 


pongee 


drivelled 


amanuensis 


sirdar 


Slavonians 


confinable 


rescissory 


saltpeter"^ 


eatable 


seigneurial 


caoutchouc 


archelogy 


pseudo 


protean 


caesura 


arefy 


corporal 


saccharine 


rarefy 


antiquary 


arborescent 


oviparous 


bankruptcy 



2cS 



LIVE q UE S TI N S. 



cachinnation 


pomaceous 


besque 


squab 


mollify 


hydrostatics 


antiscii 


auriferous 


importunate 


beaux-esprits 


upholstery 


descendent 


ascians 


improvisation 


infusible 


dirge 


colonelcy 


abeyant 


indite 


clinometer 


tannin 


lackey 


gauging 


supersede 


paneled 


quartos 


scissors 


empyreal 


solecism 


apocalypse 


practise 


sassafras 


lettuce 


privileges 


novitiate 


indefatigable 


comj^lementary 


exchangeable 


violaceous 


consonance 


nonchalance 


wight 


abscess 


sponginess 


insatiate 


mity 


sapphire • 


allopathy 


catafalque 


preferable 


dissension 


anemone 


sycophancy 


ossify 


reticule 


territory 


puncheon 


shough 


rapped 


peaceable 


ephod 


cazique 


peccable 


incinerable 


sorites 


ogre 


Bolognese 


stere 


sarcophagus 


enameler 


hir 


nasturtium 


inflorescence 


plenitude 


kern 


piquant 


lapsable 


recondite 


dessert 


minever 


umbrageous 


malmsey 


phoenix 


antecians 


ferrule 


vendible 


heinous 


stolen 


excision 


radii 


adolescence 


meting 


radiuses 


subterranean 


ratiocination 


gravelled 


Aix 


Norwegians 


farrago 


exchangeability 


mucic 


amplify 


vocule 


stupefy 


ascendable 


omissible 


hominy 


chasm 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 



29 



tine 


almond 


belvedere 


conservable 


quadrible 


floe 


heteroscians 


emaciate 


libeller 


ricochet 


jocose 


effluvia 


pellicle 


lien 


ann 


thoroughly 


divinable 


cicatrize 


litigious 


recension 


fulfillment 


merge 


browse 


^ champaign 


bouquet 


missed 


baroness 


lobelia 


besiege 


barrenness 


gourmand 


saliaceous 


incidents 


conchology 


izzard 


dispensary 


bunion 


grotesque 


germane 


cafe 


gouty 


tamarind 


risibility 


dout 


colophon 


irremeable 


scalenous 


za 


tiller 


intuition 


calisthenics 


prothonotary 


congruent 


trochee 


condescension 


congeries 


gullible 


guana 


rendezvous 


ornithorhynchus 


coryza 


periscii 


reflexible 


admissible 


supercilious 


merriment 


demarcation 


periecians 


meritorious 


demesne 


producible 


Neapolitans 


encyclopedia 


convertible 


millinery 


thaught 


axle-tree 


descendant 


distillment 


sofa 


descendent 


concatenation 


coolly 


isn't 


complexion 


lowed 


harmattan 


deducible 


fete 


employable 


imitable 


nautical 


satellite 


marchioness 


lyre 


whirler 


drachma 


crescent 


blamable 


fiacre 


dilatation 


improbable 


columbiad 


saponaceous 


wraith 


copped 


lugubrious 


suppuration 



3* 



30 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



putrescible 


plagiarism 


chrysalis 


amaranthine 


worshiped 


philopena 


stearine 


complacent 


fasces 


immanence 


complaisant 


weezel 


rubicund 


discourageable 


cilicious 


optician 


pen ni form 


maracan 


myrmidon 


calendar 


propitiable 


antiscians 


errata 


herbivorous 


fungous 


missal 


infringement 


belladonna 


sybarite 


aerial 


gauge 


ultramontane 


pommeled 


neophyte 


sycamore 


modeled 


soprano 


glyph 


abbe 


flagellation 


farrier 


sanctimonious 


marabou 


ukase 


sensible 


pythoness 


rouleau 


moreen 


oleaginous 


disagreeable 


Portuguese 


patronymic 


acher 


incidence 


pronunciamento 


flotilla 


critique 


emanation 


pronounce 


timorous 


coniferous 


tensiled 


apotheosis 


cataclysm 


anker 


irrision 


tarlatan 


sauer-kraut* 


mandamus 


denarius 


zoutch 


bulletin 


gewgaw 


effable 


faience 


statistician 


ichneumon 


flambeau 


Genoese 


carnivorous 


refrangible 


pasigraphy 


carotid 


inditer 


aerolite 


sleid 


douche 


bourgeois 


slade 


sentient 


cordelle 


epilogue 


isotheral 


coffer 


sluice 


terrible 


parapet 


cosmography 


hylotheism 


martin 


rancid 


buccaneer 


creaght 


indiscretion 


incense 


phiz 


amethyst 


andante 



ORTHOGRAPHY 



31 



ooticoid 

solder 

gibberish 

aerated 

Modenese 

murrain 

frays 

rhubarb 

exigent 

piquant 

syndicate 

tasseled 

colone 

puissance 

tralation 

ghastliness 

?eolian 

lier 

curricle 

preferable 

purl 

fizz 

sawney 

intercede 

Bologna 

passable 

sufferable 

scarify 

onomatoprjeia 

hirsute 

juniper 

indubitable 

aggravation 

regretted 

euthanasy 

Procrustean 



ruse 

odeon 

suppressible 

hermitage 

aerology 

numismatology 

Westmoreland 

stupefaction 

soojee 

tankard 

anemone 

levee 

mineralogy 

(|uinsy 

cowered 

acolyte 

dispensable 

surveillance 

enjoyable 

sclerotic 

choleric 

laminable 

peripatetic 

transferrer 

vernier 

chimpanzee 

ipecacuanha 

anglicize 

reversible 

adventitious 

tattlery 

recognizance 

disembogue 

fissure 

balderdash 

chloride 



manoeuvre 

gelid 

ebullient 

mete 

inadvertent 

malleable 

absorbent 

corpuscle 

tyro 

faucet 

extricable 

adobe 

wheal 

ci meter 

porcelain 

feasible 

newt 

nitry 

tariff 

emulsion 

installment"^' 

truttaceous 

tourniquet 

prescient 

Juste-Milieu 

calibre 

agglutinant 

regrettable 

miaul 

archaeology 

Silesia 

biology 

Cayenne 

ocher 

katydid 

indiscrete 



32 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



gecko 


knocks 


centime 


nefarious 


hegi ra 


feges 


labefy 


picturesque 


plethora 


finns 


distinguishable 


mosque 


antiqiieness 


mustered 


sulphurous 


chastisement 


reticence 


mobilizatioii 


victualled 


hauberk 


etymology 


blatant 


aphides 


crambo 


incompetence 


rine 


feudal 


sylph 


philippic 


cento 


licensable 


adherence 


mainpernable 


apparition 


scurrility 


schistous 


madefy 


erubescent 


euroclydon 


excisable 


rescind 


conscionable 


prescience 


efifervescible 


council 


edulcorant 


clandestine 


Venezuela 


effervescent 


subtlety 


ruthenium 


instil 


])ersuasible 


indelible 


querulous 


paleontology 


anthracite 


scrutoire 


patients 


accompaniment 


auxiliary 


caboose 


imperious 


tyrannous 


rhiccory 


malaria 


pigeon 


calcareous 


voracity 


antediluvian 


deterrent 


cauterize 


missal 


legible 


adherents 


l)ierceable 


helix 


schesis 


hecatomb 


indecimable 


cognition 


oology 


penguin 


boatswain 


abducent 


chalybeate 


homogeneal 


cadaverous 


cavalcade 


enviable 


exegesis 


spinach 


congealable 


tiaraed 


obscenity 


pasticcio 


boiled 


lynx 


sirocco 


allopath ist 


auscultation 


guaiacum 


alogian 


earn el i an 


gazon 


suzerain 


illaudable 


chorister 



ORTHOGRAPHY 



caisson 


centaur 


imminence 


elision 


melee 


elysian 


tactician 


Magyars 


afferent 


antipodes 


recompense 


consentient 


hydra 


bibulous 


acaiilescent 


alamode 


heriot 


eucharist 


rued 


alignment 


reconnoissance 


analyst 


archipelago 


inadequate 


peroration 


manitou 


proroguing 


numskull 


baccalaureate 


nuncio 


manikin 


alleviate 


diocesan 


bilingual 


tangible 


surceased 


portcullis 


repairable 


palace 


reparable 


leviable 


equable 


catoptrics 


mown 


messieurs 


placebo 


mustard 


innumeraljle 


populace 


discous 


populous 


gentian 


procedure 


setaceous 


naivete 


tessellate 


recherche 


squaccos 


jejune 


jackal 


gaugeable 


truncheon 


phlegmatic 


seeder 


liquefaction 


enfilade 


genealogy 


perioeci 


bagnio 


imaginable 


hyperbole 


role 



peaceably 

talisman 

cajeput 

sangfroid 

indiscreet 

learnable 

eulogium 

homicide 

transiently 

magnesia 

kangaroo 

seine 

ecclesiology 

careening 

succinct 

antoeci 

knot-grass 

usquebaugh 

transcendent 

testaceous 

ephemeral 

stagirite 

nee 

buoyant 

l)oracic 

arable 

biliary 

artillery 

elixir 

inferable 

inflammable 

})eriscians 

pettitoes 

oscitancy 

anagram 



34 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



schemer 

distillable 

sebaceous 

wade 

wayed 

challengeable 

reverie 

incommiscible 

c|iiay 

bastion 

fiar 

bowie-knife 

geoponic 

cretaceous 

strychnine 

cession 

exceptionable 

silicic 

tomatoes 

cauterize 

teil 

tinselly 

yawl 

pirouette 

rinse 

hautboy 

calligraphy 

sycee 

theodicy 

abnegation 

mysticism 

gules 

eolation 

bailiwick 

verbosity 

mezzotint 



virus 

contour 

gastrology 

rhythm 

violoncello 

weald en 

leach 

zigzagged 

bateau 

axillary 

paladin 

Sevastopol 

Jah 

destructible 

roulette 

esoteric 

isinglass 

rew 

licorice 

envenom 

poignant 

cutaneous 

lexicology 

vinaigrette 

craniology 

aeronaut 

clough 

equitable 

ophiology 

nonpareil 

illapsable 

termagant 

lodgeable 

lovable 

sumach''' 

flotant 



pallet 

surcingle 

agrarian 

attache 

liquefiable 

guano 

glutinous 

melligenous 

cuirassier 

encomium 

sac 

hallucination 

terpsichorean 

bass-relief 

tabooing 

marigold 

taciturn 

pleiades 

incognito 

quassia 

decadent 

samiel 

scalenus 

commissary 

idol 

indictment 

chalybeate 

eviscerate 

epithet 

irrecordable 

ostracize 

inventible 

coquetry 

herculean 

seigneurial 

dilettant 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 



35 



zho 


invertible 


doubloon 


treatise 


glorify 


diversifiable 


treaties 


falsify 


severance 


pirouetting 


ornithology 


weasel 


margravine 


pertinacity 


caracole 


exsiccation 


tannery 


archaism 


sinewy 


codify 


impedible 


garnishee 


weird ^ 


hermeneutics 


apotheosis 


grater 


flicks 


examinable 


effervescence 


gehenna 


disputable 


rainable 


disme 


a^on 


estimable 


escheatable 


Swedenborgian 


gyrfalcon 


bailable 


grisly 


distrainable 


heather 


persuadable 


quizzical 


deprivation 


awned 


cryptology 


mendicant 


ignitible 


anchoret 


mellifluous 


prescience 


auricular 


guilder 


phosphorous 


morale 


annunciation 


symposium 


c ragged ness 


fossil 


dual 


orison 


abstinent 


leaguer 


daguerreotype 


stimulus 


nix 


autopsy 


plaided 


omiciliate 


paxy-waxy 


thitnee 


saccharize 


tautology 


plantain 


cerement 


Faneuil 


waxy 


felloe 


rouse 


morphine 


millennium 


despicable 


osier 


metempsychosis 


periphery 


confutant 


emendable 


zoophyte 


empyrean 


Swedes 


bream 


plagiarize 


lachrymose 


lechery 


missile 


stipendiary 


miscellaneous 


coercive 


incarcerate 


torrefaction 


apropos 


chrysolite 


teasel'^ 


conferrable 


climatology 


superficies 


papyrus 



36 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



spatts 

phthisic 

withe 

Croats 

cabriolet 

chronology 

conducive 

turpitude 

varioloid 

outrageous 

paideutics 

pleurisy" 

ean 

plateau 

parsley 

oracle 

rhetorician 

succotash 

Noachian 

whir 

homeopathy 

troubadour 

minimum 

heresiarch 

aborigines 

dentifrice 

surveillant 

denouement 

lackadaisical 

nucleus 

cutaneous 

novice 

imbroglio 

spontaneous 

incendiary 

extraneous 



scurrilous 

quincunx 

deliquescent 

kohl-rabi 

philter 

sciatica 

muskallonge 

cellular 

arable 

monsieur 

hypochondriac 

pennigerous 

subservient 

knacky 

adscititious 

octagynous 

hosiery 

onerary 

ante-room 

panegyric 

inducteous 

precinct 

etiquette 

panacea 

occidental 

farrago 

languor 

T-square 

pierian 

paw-paw 

muffettee 

miliary 

cultivable 

moiety 

mantua-maker 

hemorrhage 



irrebuttable 

skepticism 

ingratiate 

antiseptic 

woodmeil 

systole 

armada 

munificence 

kerosene 

lapel 

svnchronous 

analogous 

siren 

hygiene 

suitable 

apocryphal 

maxillary 

gairishly 

mademoiselle 

obese 

prodigies 

dyspepsia 

medalurgy 

chirurgeon 

loch 

ascetic 

liegance 

gunwale 

mausoleum 

hypothecate 

demulcent 

nonplusing 

nymph 

flageolet 

bas-bleue 

educible 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 



37 



farina 

perturbation 

concupiscence 

February 

schaum 

megatherium 

excruciate 

culler 

fortuitous 

fulmineous 

metamorphose 

rodomontade 

lacquer 

owelty 

oscillate 

satirize 

calcine 

gun n age 

hydraulics 

proboscis 

disheveled 

liquidate 

felicitate 

marauder 

microscopy 

plenteous 

accessory 

rancid 

discursive 

metaphysical 

antiseptic 

laciniated 

nadir 

spermaceti 

champagne 

mahogany 



believe 

onslaught 

comparison 

scission 

prestidigitator 

marque 

gladiator 

ventriloquy 

halloween 

tumefaction 

nunchion 

participle 

paraphernalia 

turmoiling 

auriferous 

compliment 

porphyry 

alacrity 

lamprey 

sociology 

accoutre 

electrology 

flocculent 

iconology 

harass 

syndesmology 

hakim 

oligarchy 

lyrical 

guerdon 

souvenir 

gregarious 

extravasation 

physiology 

miniature 

surrogate 



hymeneal 

nux-vomica 

potpourri 

exacerbate 

paraphrase 

cartilage 

chute 

lineament 

anodyne 

pneumatics 

occipital 

opiniative 

callus 

exacerbation 

liquefy 

fustian 

automaton 

risible 

linsey-woolsey 

osseous 

onomatology 

philology 

synchronology 

phonology 

loquacious 

farcical 

kleptomania 

rosaceous 

nescience 

hereditary 

declamatory 

theology 

inaccessible 

chrysology 

meteorology 

osteology 



38 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



schnapps 

labyrinth 

trousseau 

squeamish 

implacable 

sieve 

knurly 

inchoate 

plaguily 

grouping 

niche 

nucleus 

jeopardize 

asceticism 

campaign 

macadamize 

mandarin 

ophthalmy 

concomitant 

angiology 

lotus 

Michilimackinac 

perspicacious 

marlaceous 

myology 

believable 

phantasmagoria 

phlebology 

psychology 

acquirable 

reflectent 

compressible 

adducible 

incitant 

affectible 

revengeable 



glossology 

neurology 

necrology 

turbinaceous 

histology 

immersion 

ethnology 

accoutrements 

obstreperous 

convection 

myrmidon 

calculable 

wrasse 

hennery 

obesity 

raucity 

blanc- mange 

cipherable 

homageable 

squeal 

prospectus 

restaurant 

tying 

fuchsia 

referrible 

suburban 

})alanquin 

resuscitant 

salsolaceous 

immanent 

jacent 

pestilent 

petulant 

crucible 

hellebore 

historiographer 



pyrology 

nosology 

confluent 

accountable 

psilology 

impressible 

delineate 

morphology 

crystalology 

cuirass 

psalter 

Salter 

extirpable 

impermeable 

inconcussible 

calcareous 

enveloped 

lacs 

martyrdom 

feasibility 

prussic 

hypnology 

adjudicate 

chirography 

aggrandizement 

intactible 

peppered 

pyrotechnic 

hemorrhage 

filaceous 

gallinaceous 

drupaceous 

sanable 

contractible 

deducible 

extensible 



ORTHOGnAPHY. 



39 



reviewable 


cygnet 


transpirable 


corruptible 


epilepsy 


destructible 


inscient 


heptarchy 


traversable 


transparent 


garrote 


visitable 


accostable 


congregation 


arable 


achievable 


rescindable 


dissectible 


reticent 


critique 


corrigible 


commendable 


committible 


reducent 


lapidescent 


classible 


^ accustomable 


abhorrible 


coctible 


weighable 


veritable 


collectible 


traceable 


admissible 


cognoscible 


diffusible 


accendible 


warrantable 


credible 


comprehensible 


washable 


mordant 


absolvable 


succorable 


deductible 


repeatable 


advantageable 


fluxible 


coercible 


comparable 


defensible 


audible 


• acidifiable 


intractable 


terminable 


squeezable 


nocent 


rancescent 


accountable 


noctiverant 


accomptable 


lacquer 


resemblable 


transmutable 


apprehensible 


commandant 


tamable 


gaseous 


cynaraceous 


repudiable 


absorbable 


ferulaceous 


adustible 


recusant 


tithable 


addible 


revalescent 


concrescible 


accessible 


tergant 


octant 


separable 


habeas corpus 


generant 


re-entrant 


fuchsia 


trisyllable 


treasonable 


innocuous 


Occident 


ruinable 


euphemism 


arbitrable 


revocable 


allegeable 


digestible 


commensurable 


deflagrate 


ordinant 


latescent 


incognito 


fallible 


combustible 


gondola 


corollaceous 


accordable 


facade 


fabricant 



40 



L I VE q UES TI NS. 



accusable 

coriaceous 

preponderant 

gradient 

exhalant 

juncaceous 

edible 

aggradizable 

convincible 

plenipotent 

enascent 

expansible 

prescindent 

exhaustible 

refutable 

inalienable 

eludible 

agitable 

chartaceous 

farinaceous 

indefensible 

chylaceous 

indissoluble 

omniscient 

discernible 

impassable 

prescient 

amylaceous 

conchylaceous 

glaucescent 

extendible 

evacuant 

defectible 

hederaceous 

erasible 

sacrilegious 



corrosible 

confervaceous 

obstruent 

crustaceous 

corruptible 

conversible 

expedient 

descendible 

phosphorescent 

expectant 

distensible 

obversant 

defendant 

deficit 

apellous 

terrac]ueous 

flexible 

retrievable 

expressible 

pubescent 

compressible 

refrangible 

avenaceous 

confident 

amentaceous 

limaceous 

divisible 

correctible 

marcescible 

cichoraceous 

testaceous 

pernicious 

excrescent 

horrent 

convertible 

incorruptible 



censurable 

inexorable 

fencible 

abolishable 

compatible 

emanant 

intendant 

acinaceous 

liquescent 

alliaceous 

repellent 

cetaceous 

defeasible 

innate 

recursant 

decoctible 

feasible 

initiatory 

actionable 

capillaceous 

transcendent 

turgent 

cinchonaceous 

declinable 

cineraceous - 

emmet 

reducible 

ceraceous 

papescent 

distractible 

furfuraceous 

herbaceous 

divestible 

indispensable 

recusant 

sebaceous 



ORTHOGRAPHY 



41 



erubescent 

pungent 

byssaceous 

acanthaceous 

participant 

carbonaceous 

incompatible 

deducible 

reprehensible 

losable 

peccant 

ruminant 

corrugation 

loquacity 

vagabond 

indigenous 

debilitate' 

impressible 

Latin 

latten 

moneyed 

lacerate 

discoverable 

(,-yme 

empirical 

divisive 

schismatize 

omniparous 

ethereal 

Spiegel 

defeasible 

annalize 

tensible 

prejudice 

ideology 

assuage 



liliaceous 

alutaceous 

corrodible 

respondent 

quadruple 

camphoraceous 

obscurant 

esculent 

predicant \ 

existent 

observant 

cqnducible 

acoustics 

liturgy 

sciolist 

espionage 

delirious 

pecan 

shellac 

bryology 

purveyor 

lunette 

corridor 

mediocre 

facile 

geodesy 

philoprogenitiveness 

fy 

ipecacuanha 

advantageous 

hylopathism 

knoppern 

facetious 

turbulence 

prophecy 

prophesy 

4* 



malmsey 

guardant 

pregustant 

pursuant 

fermentescible 

arenaceous 

arundinaceous 

butyraceous 

argillaceous 

inexpressible 

transportable 

equant 

octateuch 

flaccid 

deviser 

nunnery 

etch 

employe 

ambulance 

souchong 

Sadducee 

autocrat 

maximum 

bivouac 

radius 

primogenial 

obesity 

emollient 

tetrastich 

resistant 

censorious 

quintessence 

portmonnaie 

endurable 

peregrination 

vying 



42 



LIVE qUESTTONS. 



savory 


ostensible 


tesselated 


mesne 


pomegranate 


brachiology 


lanceolated 


n.ejjenthe 


perennial 


exhaustible 


chiropodist 


scallop 


knout 


milliner 


collop 


colocynth 


stirrup 


acclamation 


referable 


manageable 


acclimation 


immensity 


succulence 


fictitious 


mandible 


interstice 


psyche 


licentiate 


medlar 


epaulet 


inducible 


posthumous 


stimulus 


coruscant 


transfusible 


enervate 


corvorant 


scullion 


viscera 


trepidation 


cortege 


tergiversation 


polytechnic 


phylactery 


satinet 


immersable 


astrology 


demurrer 


indorsable 


honeysuckle 


chiccory 


cierge 


ontology 


kneed 


efflorescent 


hereditament 


rapine 


vitreous 


orthoepy 


antitype 


sequacious 


deceptible 


clairvoyant 


reveille 


connubial 


coalescent 


prodigious 


amerce 


rummage 


masquerade 


raceme 


manatee'^' 


varicose 


emendation 


Venetians 


precisian 


debtee 


coupon 


precision 


schedule 


acerbity 


lucre 


obsolete 


anonymous 


guanacos 


adagio 


numismatics 


sear 


hecatomb 


efficacious 


descendant 


flite 


conquerable 


ALolmn 


abescent 


bereavement 


raceme 


pistachio 


inanition 


incessant 


jalap 


fusileer 


extensible 


codicil 


censer 


stiletto 


captaincy 


censor 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 



43 



calendar 

resistible 

technology 

convalescence 

deleterious 

breakable 

Bolognese 

topsy turvy 

inthralment 

magna-charta 

sempiternal 

considerable 

chenille 

omniscient 

chapeau 

gluttonous 

sofi 

discus 

achievement 

flix 

yule 

traducible 

passible 

efficacious 

irrecusable 

egregious 

querulous 

calcareous 

candescence 

demurrer 

elysian 

doily 

trysting 

Huguenot 

rancorous 

reticence 



macerate 

gypsum 

solstitial 

poring 

cowherd 

ricochet 

entomology 

zodiacal 

quassia 

geode 

naphtha 

sapphic 

litigable 

limi table 

sleuth 

laudable 

nexible 

zouave 

vestibule 

dace 

chiropodist 

larynx 

cortical 

movable 

cajolery 

puncheon 

mammee 

inconcealable 

venesection 

fugacious 

cyar 

braggadocio 

atheneum 

bronchitis 

ostentatious 

mire 



javelin 

righteous 

typhus 

tornadoes 

appurtenance 

hermeneutics 

paralytic 

eugoulee 

tragacanth 

halcyon 

conjecturable 

fixable 

pellucid 

malediction 

navel 

transmissible 

enforceable 

consumable 

aches 

gullibility 

grimalkin 

halberdier 

debarkation 

pupillary 

heterotypy 

cacoethes 

skein 

gymnast 

voltigeur 

Wednesday 

mysticism 

sley 

similes 

velocipede 

secession 

duodenum 



44 



/. / VE q UE s ri ns. 



horoscope 


argillaceous 


piazza 


hydrology 


etesian 


taxidermist 


lazuli 


debit 


fillip 


diarrhoea 


franc 


yolk 


incision 


tonsil 


devisor 


allegeable 


stencil 


crewel 


toadyism 


peripatetic 


artillerist 


ostensible 


gneiss 


laccic 


detonate 


blurt 


pannel 


caterwaul 


side 


osprey 


apothecary 


yacht 


clannish 


plagal 


corollary 


eleve 


knead 


geysers 


hypnotic 


aeronaut 


meute 


riddance 


shillalah 


ichthyology 


therapeutics 


reserv^oir 


abatis 


poudrette 


colossus 


volti 


librettos' 


gaudiness 


expeditious 


confectionery 


gabel 


rectitude 


bazaar 


annunciation 


oxvgen 


bizarre 


marriageable 


palpitation 


rutaceous 


irrepressible 


lackey 


annotate 


flocks 


kos 


allies 


phlox 


therapeutical 


ptisan 


tureen 


zephyr 


dolorous 


irrigation 


jaguar 


stirring 


knickknack 


conjurer 


prehensile 


indefatigable 


tablature 


alleys 


indefeasible 


currant 


dromedary 


lash 


current 


cerulean 


lache 


drought 


senility 


mainprize 


woolly 


omelet 


casque 


cedrelaceous 


dispersive 


militia 


cycle 


macadamize 


cornaceous 


beleaguer 


scrawny 


deleble 


orchestra 


stucco 



ORTHOGRAPHY 



45 



deglutition 


lapse 


mi 


asparagus 


laps 


fratricide 


bo 


innuendo 


siphon 


equestrian 


conduit 


skein 


epicurean 


cessation 


flagellation 


foliaceous 


majorat 


lower 


eureka 


scirrhosity 


lore 


manoeuvre 


mercenary 


epiphany 


busses 


moccasin 


adulatory 


howitzer 


roguery 


hibernal 


yeast 


chrysolite 


incrassate 


ampulaceous 


etiolate 


pensile 


oxymoron 


acerbity 


misfeasance 


coercionist 


meningitis 


millionaire 


scalloped 


anarchist 


plenipotentiary 


unction 


mistletoe 


ocellated 


vermicelli 


minutia 


comptroller 


soiree 


gherkin 


saturnine 


gravelly 


osseous 


marcelihe 


testudineous 


malign 


saleratus 


weazen 


amenity 


onerous 


solfeggio 


judiciar)^ 


unballasted 


intriguing 


rideau 


metamorphosis 


cyperaceous ' 


perigee 


extractible 


hypallage 


machination 


fusibility 


stationary 


subaltern 


mewl 


vanilla 


likelihood 


animosity 


chert 


wagoner 


tannin 


re 


miaul 


maintenance 


vident 


malarial 


sciagraphy 


ignescent 


marigenous 


concatenation 


chameleon 


persecutor 


impecunious 


omnibuses 


morceau 


moraine 


leaguing 


pseudonym 


pentateuch 


elision 


llanos 


infinitesimal 


weighed 


twingeing 


gizzard 



46 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



exsiccant 


aggregation 


fanaticism 


libelant 


inflorescence 


miscible 


nauseate 


Cassiopeia 


chirurgical 


nonchalance 


ginseng 


fricassee 


Deuteronomy 


coruscate 


iguana 


dilettanteism 


decimate 


lamm 


serviceage 


resuscitate 


statuette 


finesse 


unfathomable 


cuttoe 


termagant 


tanist 


cinchona 


gawky 


blue-eyed 


celery 


caricature 


extoUer 


Pilate 


cinnabar 


espionage 


mnemonics 


demoiselle 


throe 


relieving 


schottish 


interference 


refrangible 


categorize 


tirwit 


aorta 


minnesinger 


immigrate 


escritoire 


ephemeral 


Strauss 


proceeding 


coral 


girandole 


rationale 


nom de plume 


schism 


recension 


aphyllous 


euroclydon 


poule 


exacerbate 


disparities 


calyx 


vacuum 


cashmere 


irrigation 


extirpate 


yewen 


ophicleide 


echinus 


epicurean 


guerrilla 


cardamom 


initiate 


complimentary 


bourgeon 


disseminate 


barricade 


\msearchable 


abhorrence 


calligraphy 


receding 


paralysis 


caterwauling 


gibbous 


auriferous 


cyanogen 


guerdon 


lintel 


escutcheon 


deliquescent 


debris 


dieresis 


rhumb 


carbuncle 


devoir 


emigrate 


estoppel 


towed 


amicable 


olympian 


levitical 


inheritance 


tubercular 


jet-d'eau 


coquet 


storthing 


boudoir 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 



47 



gorilla 


furrier 


exsiccate 


fl orescent 


macaroni 


muezzin 


lacerate 


seance 


accessible 


assignable 


battens 


colicky 


prestige 


funeral 


convalesce 


cruiser 


equipage 


cibarious 


fracas 


referable 


curculio 


gherkin 


butyric 


chaparral 


Gaelic 


dahlia 


savant 


tourniquet 


irremediable 


dizziness 


faucet 


crypt 


dormer-window 


digital 


chaperon 


antipodean 


scintillate 


oscillate 


excrescence 


countrified 


purulent 


camphene 


raiser 


perceptible 


ballast 


ragout 


diphtheria 


rancor 


gibing 


epilepsy 


regurgitate 


glebe 


hesitancy 


fascine 


rabbet 


emollient 


cisco 


mephitic 


etching 


phosphorescence 


uvula 


broad-gauge 


hippopotamus 


bulrush 


lachrymose 


etagere 


panegyric 


patronymic 


antiquit5^ 


bagatelle 


garrulous 


aperient 


contrariwise 


oviparous 


keelson 


eminent 


roue 


oligarchy 


producible 


achievable 


calescence 


shekel 


lassitude 


assailable 


quaternary 


gneiss 


precedent 


oriflamme 


cavallard 


cirque 


extirpate 


centiped 


inscrutable 


viscous 


gymnasium 


canvas 


cftarade 


prier 


heterogeneous 


guipure 


parachute 


hieroglyphic 


enroll 


belligerent 


fledgeling 


resume 


flower-de-luce 


inertia 



48 



LIVE V UESTIONS. 



celandine 

granivorous 

tac 

hirsute 

treillage 

antique 

innocuous 

chrism 

justiciary 

poniard 

feasible 

metallurgy 

galoche 

gopher 

hexameter 

inveigle 

pickeer 

magnesia 

exorcise 

contemptible 

olympiad 

nascent 

metempsychosis 

ignis-fatuus 

harem 

oboe 

triposes 

glamour 

genuflection 

kerosene 

inseparable 

hyperborean 

handiwork 

hurricane 

gyration 

jetteau 



gasometer 

nautical 

excretory 

gillyflower 

etwee 

chrysanthemum 

paroquet 

buchu 

desuetude 

eleemosynary 

innuendo 

pursuivant 

harlequin 

isosceles 

melange 

ousel 

irridescent 

matricide 

ineflable 

lascivious 

porphyry 

guise 

coercion 

cetaceous 

incapable 

combustible 

consolable 

pygmy 

Catiline 

granary 

mortgage 

visite 

yaourt 

Scilly 

chintz 

cuisine 



gyral 

devisee 

frankincense 

gallinaceous 

connoisseur 

Galileo 

slaughter 

herbarium " 

generalissimo 

compatible 

jasey 

habiliment 

initiatory 

herculean 

herbivorous 

heinous 

hornblende 

sanguinary 

inerrably 

impanel 

inchoative 

inveigle 

hypochondriac 

homologous 

hvins: 

imbecile 

rescindment 

ipecacuanha 

hummock 

gutta-percha 

improvisator 

hinging 

hilarious * 

ordination 

ambrosial 

esophagus 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 



49 



japanned 


cul-de-sac 


quean 


burlesquing 


incandescent 


hideous 


fluxion 


harass 


holocaust 


attoUent 


coalition 


ingratiate 


hexaphyllous 


heritance 


holiday 


jaundice 


kaleidoscope 


acquittal 


insectivorous 


kayak 


coupe 


juvenescent 


Paixhan 


advisable 


homonyms 


chimere 


divisible 


hackneyed 


ebullition 


quadrille 


gelatine 


detersive 


impassible 


Caucasian 


elite 


quiescence 


abominable 


guys 


hollyhock 


confectionery 


eagre 


ichneumon 


genealogy 


eager 


hypocrisy 


marauder 


sherbet 


imminent 


glyph 


sherif 


cinque 


hiccough 


maxillary 


cicatrice 


picks 


facetiae 


imbroglio 


pyx 


Macau lay 


deglutition 


feint 


scurrilous 


resplendent 


faint 


idiosyncrasy 


supernatant 


hearsed 


chough 


pyre 


facetious 


chute 


dyeing 


quire 


susceptible 


efficient 


choir 


carcass 


concise 


sconce 


instantaneous 


deciduous 


sheriff 


clayey 


ensconce 


shoot 


meretricious 


debauchee 


suite 


avalanche 


cologne 


trigon 


haut gout 


hyades 


halos 


chloroform 


poignancy 


chinse 


intercalary 


buoyancy 


trygon 


eligible 


eviscerate 


schist 


dishevel 


expose 


smitt 


incorrigible 


knight-errant 



50 



T.IVK qUESTIOXS. 



schlich 


fruiterer 


inextinguishable 


homogeneous 


marcjuee 


inefficacious 


shinney 


chrysalis 


hebdomadal 


debutant 


eucharist 


horoscope 


siroccos 


compunctious 


polka 


mellifluous 


grenadine 


flagon 


melee 


harelip 


illicit 


efflorescence 


intaglio 


Porte 


diuretic 


Hawaiian 


isothermal 


Huguenots 


irascible 


cumulus 


cephalalgy 


gyving 


chuff 


hatchel 


tryst 


chough 


psychologist 


acknowledgment 


acoustics 


cingle 


syllogism 


catechise 


tew 


bole 


criticise 


synovia 


barege 


accordance 


b rough 


combated 


accordion 


quoin 


bivouacked 


ciliform 


coigne 


Fat i ma 


distilled 


Teutonic 


Zeruiah 


swingeing 


cynosure 


chlorine 


referable 


cole 


extensible 


Meaux 


suir 


albinos 


acolyth 


Tuscarawas 


abaiser 


Rensselaer 


vaud 


frolicked 


abridgment 


Thomasine 


aberrancy 


miry 


deltoid 


silicite 


resplendence 


wassail 


vicissitude 


sylphid 


invincible 


indictable 


aneurism 


bdellium 


millinery 


anglicize 


Astraea 


infallible 


Micawber 


sibyl 


acreage 


unscalable 


dodoes 


inseparable 


ancillary 


penner 


irascible 


anchylosis 


Hogg 


reminiscence 


raillerv 


pennant 


convalescent 


euphemism 



ORTHOGRAPHY 



51 



ciliate 

mirage 

gossamer 

tarpeian 

appall 

amaurosis 

ambergris 

amanuensis 

tolled 

irreparable 

carriest 

waive 

gluey 

alignment 

sotto-voce 

absinthe 

tymbal 

amphigean 

therapeutic 

adipose 

tourniquet 

auxiliary 

coup de grace 

acrogenous 

adamantean 

sobriquet 

adventitious 

celibacy 

i«"i movable 

sibylline 

aloes 

effervesce 

whimsical 

albescent 

uncontrollable 

abscess 



acquaintance 

acquiescence 

indelible 

reconnoissance 

aconite 

unsullied 

Mahabarata 

anachronism 

mimesis 

acclivous 

disheir 

Boz 

acquiesce 

alibi 

titillate 

enamored 

inflexible 

truncheon 

irrevocable 

psychical 

stalactite 

witticism 

intercede 

meningitis 

vermicelli 

incredible 

tatterdemalion 

scalawag 

impalpable 

vicinage 

coalesce 

tessellate 

criss-cross 

giraffe 

strabismus 

stadtholder 



discernible 

supersede 

gibbous 

excrescence 

untenable 

dishabille 

alish 

aggerose 

triturate 

alpaca 

truculent 

adscititious 

tete-a-tete 

turgescence 

distich 

deliquesce 

finesse 

giaour 

varicose 

bilious 

billion 

syndic 

cinnabar 

insuperable 

apostasy 

vijiaigrette 

sibilant 

abjurer 

stevedore 

arnica 

chylopoetic 

appurtenance 

resilient 

aquarium 

gyroscope 

araneous 



52 



LIVE qu E STIO NS. 



garrulous 


catachresis 


arachnoid 


en schedule 


conch 


scintillation 


sevennight 


souchong 


Moultrie 


irresistible 


mastic 


complexion 


ineffable 


maul -stick 


Wayne 


transferable 


phraseology 


cataclysm 


inca 


euterpean 


Cee 


coalesce 


boudoir 


boracic 


herbaceous 


spaniel 


rhinoceros 


apocalypse 


sloe 


gudgeon 


ranker 


pharynx 


besom 


appendance 


Touf 


cinque 


dietetics 


cyclone 


conjurer 


barytone 


candied 


contagion 


zouaves 


unchangeable 


picaroon 


desiccate 


shire 


sacristan 


bevel 


arabesque 


Nicene 


cerulean 


exchequer 


tassel 


hedge-bote 


picayune 


pickaninny 


anise 


Penrhyn 


caballing 


vacillate 


bacchanalian 


debonair 


carte-blanche 


pistareen 


belladonna 


verd-antique 


gnomon 


busybody 


bruit 


cyst 


Appalachian 


carrion 


cerebellum 


calcine 


almoner 


appetence 


caisson 


renaissance 


dicky 


bronchitis 


comestible 


bleachery 


beech-tree 


Limerick 


benzine 


brusqueness 


lieu 


fac-simile 


rennet 


nautilus 


beryl 


dereliction 


Javanese 


cerement 


conventicle 


brewed 


optician 


baboon 


polyandry 


asperation 


regime 


dactyl 


imbroglio 


ophthalmy 


gamut 


diocese 


assessable 



ORTHOGRAPHY. 



58 



concinnity 


luscious 


phlebotomy 


cassimere 


beleaguer 


choler 


turbot 


appanage 


personnel 


insignia 


condign 


bayou 


ferule 


scissile 


corol 


jerking 


hemistich 


fiduciary 


jerquing 


femur 


fiasco 


piccalilli 


Fahrenheit 


jerky 


parietes 


cimeter 


cancellated 


coralline 


paregoric 


crochet 


corolline 


piccadilly 


reflector 


buffeter 


rerefief 


pumice 


skyey 


dammed 


ciliary 


comminute 


damned 


Michaelmas 


nailer 


cudgel 


croquet 


calisthenics 


carrying 


sheard 


bereavement 


buhrstone 


enamel 


cajolement 


emittent 


destructible 


chanticleer 


dubious 


pemmican 


buoyancy 


duteous 


carriable 


mortise 


curd 


toed 


asperate 


epicene 


scissible 


thyme 


proscenium 


triassic 


scissel 


cachinnation 


rescind 


tocsin 


bludgeon 


parabola 


Xenia 


bureaucracy 


tulle 


germinal 


caoutchouc 


crevasse 


veer 


crescent 


catafalque 


smirky 


cajolery 


vassal 


aspiration 


facial 


dominie 


corbeil 


saponaceous 


aspirate 


kivikivi 


glaireous 


pickerel 


muscadel 


glareous 


flagitious 


cannonading 


gangrene 


diaphanous 


trachea 


fugue 


gradient 


corral 


fleur-de-lis 

5* 


gauging 



54 



LIV K q U E STIO N S. 



cantillate 


burden 


crevice 


recession 


talcose 


picrophyll 


coralliform 


birr 


farcical 


hoopoe 


hungrily 


m i sman age m e n t 


topsy-turvy 


teocalli 


rappee 


boa-constrictor 


muddied 


haugh 


caboose 


hor de combat 


oolong 


succedaneum 


jaguar 


shah 


veined 


patois 


mesdames 


cache 


ratafia 


wagonette 


whinnying 


gala-day 


rigmarole 


pyrometer 


muezzin 


cassowary 


Bedouins 


emeute 


sigil 


flatulence 


persimmon 


castellan 


juxtaposition 


aegis 


skewer 


elves 


galiot 


tautog 


jib 


kirtle 


hackmatack 


rappel 


boneset 


ruta baga 


cacique 


galleon 


dulse 


iguana 


mulch 


Valenciennes 


elysium 


myrmidon 


hartbeest 


jacconet 


bonito 


rentier 


kraken 


bon-mot 


stone-marten 


whirligig 


joust 


sarcenet 


pastel 


imprimis 


l^eruke 


adipocere 


cassino 


tetanus 


Sepoy 


fragilely 


scorbutic 


gaff 


gendarme 


visite 


friseur 


jargonelle 


kill-deer 


python 


deliquesce 


nasturtium 


abstrusely 


ensemble 


kedge 


emboguing 


demijohn 


gnome 


pennyroyal 


sheik 


elide 


musquash 


landau 


seneschal 


keelhaul 


laryngeal 


tomalley 


adscititious 


intagliated 


thole-pin 




CHAPTER II 



Reading. 



1. 

2 

3. 
4. 
5. 



8. 

9. 
10. 
11. 
l± 
U. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 

19. 

20. 
21. 



What is the difference between reading and elocution ? 

What do you mean by enunciation ? 

What do you mean by intonation ? 

What is expression ? 

What is the difference between accent and accentu- 
ation ? 

Why do we have inflections ? 

When do we use the rising inflection, and when the 
falling ? 

When is the circumflex used ? 

Define monotone, and give examples. 

What pauses do you observe in reading? 

What is suspensive quantity ? 

What is the rule for suspensive quantity? 

What are pauses ? 

Give rules for pauses. 

Define personation. 

Define pitch, force, and rate. 

Define quality. 

How many tones are considered under quality ? Name 
them. 

Define the pure, the orotund, the aspirated, the gut- 
tural, and the trembling tone. 

When is gentle force applied ? 

What is modulation ? 



56 L I VE Q UES TIO XS. 

22. What are the general divisions of modulation ? 

23. When is the circumflex used ? 

24. Define jest, irony, ridicule, and sarcasm. 

25. What is the circumflex? 

26. Is the circumflex an inflection? Why? 

27. Give rule for direct questions. Give exception. 

28. Questions, words, and clauses, connected by the dis- 

junctive "or," require what? 

29. ^^^^en words or clauses are contrasted or compared, 

what principle is recognized? 

30. What is slur '? What delivery ? 

31. How is accent sometimes changed? 

32. You may illustrate how emphasis puts feeling and 

understanding into composition. 

33. Show how accent is sometimes changed by contrast. 

34. Name the divisions of emphasis. 

35. Define absolute emphasis. Give example. 

36. Define cumulative emphasis. Give example. 

37. Define antithetic emphasis. Give example. 

38. Illustrate, by an exercise, high pitch. 

39. Are words distinguished by accents? 

40. What does good elocution embrace ? 

41. What is a mechanical reader? 

42. What is the difference between an intelligent and 

effective reader? 

43. What are the expressions of speech ? 

44. What difference is there between the formation of prose 

and poetry? 

45. What is the difference between grammatical pauses and 

rhetorical pauses? 

46. Define quantity, and define the term modulation. 

47. Give the divisions of rate. 

48. Give the divisions of force. 

49. Give the divisions of pitch. 

50. Illustrate each division of rate, force, and pitch, by an 

exercise. 



READING. 57 

51. Does melody yield to accent? When? 

5lJ. What difference is there between pronunciation and 

enunciation ? 
5o. What are the divisions of modulation? 

54. When both inflections occur on the same syllable or 

word, what is the combination called ? 

55. What methods have you of teaching reading to })ri- 

mary pupils ? 

56. What directions can vou give for the cultivation of the 

voice? 

57. What can you advise concerning the management of 

the voice ? 

58. Define parenthesis. 

50. Illustrate how i)arenthetical clauses should be read. 

60. What determines the proper accent of words ? 

61. Wliat is the censural pause? 

62. How should similes in poetry be read? 

68. How is language of irony, sarcasm, derision, condition, 
and contrast, marked ? 

64. Define relative emphasis. Give an example. 

65. How do you teach the use of gesture? 

^(\. What inflection does language of admiration, esteem, 
politeness, tender emotions, usually demand ? 

67. Illustrate, by an example, the pure voice. 

68. Illustrate, by an example, the orotund voice. 

69. Define the aspirated tone by example. 

70. Define the guttural tone by example. 

71. Illustrate the joyous tremor by example. 

72. Define the plaintive tremor by example. 

73. What do you mean by cadence? 

74. What are harmonic pauses ? To what do they belong ? 

75. How is the cesural pause indicated ? 

7(>. How is the demi-cesural pause indicated? 

77. Upon what does the length of grammatical and rhe- 

torical pauses depend ? 

78. Name the kinds of gestures. Make them. 



58 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

79. Define the terms elocution, intonation. 

<S0. What are slides? Name and define them. 

81. What do you mean by philosophy of voice? 

<S2. Describe ''Adam's apple, " and define its use. 

83. Name and define the different kinds of breathings. 

84. What is the difference between vocal culture and voice 

culture ? 

85. In elocution, what is melody? 

8() How manv distinct kinds of stress? Define each. 




CHAPTER III. 



Penmanship. 



J. Define penmanshii^ How many kinds ? 

2. Define practical penmanship, ornamental penmanship. 

3. How many movements are necessary in writing? 

4. Define each movement. 

5. What do we mean by the analysis of letters? 
(>. Analyze /, ni, S, D. 

7. How many forms are used in writing? 

8. Name and define these forms. 

!.). What do you understand by a system of penman- 
ship ? 

10. What system do you teach ? 

1 1 . Do you practice the system you teach ? 

12. How do you classify letters ? 

18. Into how many classes do you divide the alphabet? 

14. Name the letters of each class in the order of their 

relation. 

15. By what are the letters of a class distinguished from 

each other? 
1(). What is ^principle or type in penmanship? 

17. How many different elementary marks are used in 

writing? Define them. 

18. What is a characteristic in writing? 

1!>. How many different types are required to construct the 
alphabet ?* 

(59) 



60 LIVE (lUESTIOXS. 

20. Point out the (yj>es used in forming /, c, n, x, k, A, T, 

W, £>, G. 

21. Point out the characteristics of the above letters. 

22. Are the forms of letters ever varied or duplicated ? 

23. Name and make the forms. 

24. In combining letters in words, how is their relation 

shown ? 

25. Can all the small letters be made and combined with- 

out lifting the pen ? 

26. Write the word mixed. 

27. What scale of proportions do you use for the lengths 

of letters ? Widths ? 

28. How many different lengths of letters compose the 

alphabet ? 

29. What name do you give to the shortest class? The 

longest? The middle? 

30. Are there any exceptions to this classification by 

lengths ? 
81. Name and explain the exceptions. 

32. What position do letters occupy with regard to the base 

line? 

33. What degrees of slant are used in writing ? Illustrate 

them. 

34. What is uniformity ? 

35. What is its application to writing? 

36. Which is the most important in penmanship, uniformity 

or variety? 

37. What is your rule for spacing letters, words, and sen- 

tences ? 

38. What is the difference between standard and current 

capitals ? 

39. Which of the above should be taught first? 

40. How many movements do you teach in writing? 

41. Name and illustrate them. Which is the most em- 

ployed? 

42. Wliich is the most free? Which is the most tireless? 



PENMA XSIIIF. 61 

43. Where should the arms rest in writing? The hands? 

The pen ? The thumb ? 

44. Which side should be turned to the desk ? 

45. How do you prevent pupils from bending their bodies 

in writing ? 
4(). Do you teach shading? What are your rules for 
shading? 

47. Do most practical writers shade ? 

48. How do you classify pupils in penmanship? 

40. Do you teach any other subject during the writing- 
hour? 

50. How often, and how long at a time, do you give your 

writing lessons ? 

51. Do you /I'^e to teach penmanship? 

52. What is the line of beauty? 

53. Would you (question your pupils daily upon the analysis 

of letters ? 

54. Should writing in all cases be a daily exercise ? 

55. Give a rule for small letters. 

5G. What hour would you have for writing ? 

57. Are all the short letters of equal height ? Give the ex- 

ceptions. 

58. By what principles are capital letters made? 

51). Would you have a system of marking, by which every 
pupil may become his own critic, in writing exer- 
cises? 

60. What is the object of shading? 

01. Give your method of teaching pupils to hold the pen 

properly. 

02. Define the muscular movement. 

()3. What is practically the most difficult step in the art of 
writing? 

04. Where should the shade be thickest upon the curves of 

capital letters ? 

05. What is the unit of measure of slant ? 



62 LIVK QUESTIONS. 

(JO. Should the spaces between letters be greater than be- 
tween their parts ? 
()7. Point out and analyze the ///ws of beauty in 6" and L. 

Note. — The teaclier sliould always study his pupils' ditticulties in 
writing. Let the teacher write the copy as his pupils are trying to. 
Find out if possible the obstacles they have to encounter. Give your 
writing class as much attention as you do your Arithmetic, Geography, 
or Grammar classes. Make frequent use of the blackboard. Give 
them frequent exercises in nioveinent. An interest of this kind on 
your part will soon awaken their perceptions, and when they once 
gain a true idea of the letters, a zest for writing is cultivated, and, 
instead of a task, writing becomes a pleasure. 




CHAPTER IV. 



Arithmetic. 



(Principles. 



1. What is mathematics? 

2. What is the basis of mathematics? 

13. Define quantity ; number ; magnitude. 

4. What is arithmetic? Define the term. 

5. What does arithmetic embrace? 

(I. Define a principle; an axiom; a theorem ; a demon- 
stration ; a problem ; a solution ; and a rule. 

7. What is a number? What a unit ? 

8. What is a concrete number ? 

9. What is an abstract number ? 

10. Give Newton's definition of number. What is your 

opinion of it? 

11. What is a prime number? What a composite? 

12. What is the power of a number? 

18. What is one, and what is the difference between a miin- 
ber and 2i figure? 

14. Upon what is the Roman notation founded ? 

15. What are the component factors of a number? 

1<). Give the difference between the simple and local value 
of a figure ? 

17. When are numbers prime to each other? 

18. What is the reciprocal of a number? 

11). What is the difference between a common measure and 
the greatest common measure? 

(03) 



CA LIVK QUESTIONS. 

20. What is multiple? 

'1\. What is the difference between a comnion niiiltii^le and 
least common multiple? 

22. What does the numerator show? The denominator? 

23. What is an integer? 

24. Define similar numbers ; dissimilar numbers. 

25. Name the general classes of numbers treated of in 

arithmetic. 
2(). Wdiat is the fundamental idea of arithmetic? 

27. What are the fundamental processes of arithmetic? 

28. What is the difference between notation and numera- 

tion ? 

20. What is a scale? ^M^at a decimal scale? 

I>0. What is the difference between a uniform and a vary- 
ing scale? 

81. \\'hat do you mean by the orders of units? 

82. Define the decimal system of numeration. 

33. Define the Arabic system of notation. 

34. Define the radix of. the scale. 

35. Under how many heads may the processes of arithmetic 

be considered? 
3(i. Are addition and muUijilicafion synthetic or analytic 
processes ? 

37. Are subtraction and division analytic or synthetic ])ro- 

cesses ? 

38. How many systems of notation in general use ? 
31). What is the exact meaning of the word notation / 

40. (iive the principal ways in which ciuantity can be (-on- 

sidered. 

41. Distinguish between number and quantity. 

42. Distinguish between rules and operations. 

43. Wliich is correct : "increase in a tenfold ratio," or " in- 

crease in a tenfold^^roportion ? " ^\'hy? 

44. W1iat is a definition ? Define the term. 

45. Is the square root of 2 a quantity ? 

40. Show how division is a special case of subtraction. 



ARJTHMKTTC. 65 

47. What do you mean by long and short division? 

48, Why should short division precede long division ? 
41). How do you determine the vahie of a fraction ? 

50. Show why we invert the divisor in division of fractions. 

51. What is a multiplication table? 

52. Ciive the principle upon which cancellation is founded. 
5)i. When should the sign — be affixed to a fraction in 

decimal operations? 

54. Read correctly the following: i>.500 -| , and 2 X 

64.874—. 

55. Show, by example, the truth of the principle upon 

which the processes in L. C. M. are founded. 
50. State the principle which underlies the G. C. D. 

57. What do you mean by reduction of fractions? 

58. When is a fraction reduced to higher terms? 

59. Can you find the product of two decimals by a con- 

tracted multiplication ? If so, how? 

00. Can you find the quotient of one decimal by another 

by a contracted division ? 

01. Define circulating decimals ; a repetend. 

02. How do you find L. C. M. of circulating decimals? 
63. How do you find G. C. D. of circulating decimals? 
04. Multiplication is a short method of addition. If this 

be true, why can you not say 3 -f 15 -[- :^ 24 is a 
multiplication ? 

65. Why do we point off, in a product, as many decimal 
places as there are in both multiplicand and multi- 
plier? 

00. Define similar and dissimilar fractions. 

67. What do we do with dissimilar fractions before adding 

them? 

68. Give your plan of adding mixed numbers. 

09. What do we do with dissimilar fractions before sub- 
tracting them ? 

70. In multiplying a fraction by an integer, what ])rinci]jlcs 
underlie the process ? 



( ;({ LI V E QUEST 10 X S. 

71. What kind of numbers can have relation to each other? 

72. In dividing a fraction by an integer, what princii)le 

underlies the process. 
7o. What are continued fractions? Wliat is currency? 
7 1-. Distinguish between decimal and common fractions. 

75. What do you mean by aliquot parts ? 

76. Distinguish between a compound and denominate 

number. 

77. Define a pure, a mixed, a complex decimal. 

78. What does the decimal point show? 

79. Why does the principle for finding the L. C. M. re- 

quire prime numbers for divisors? 

80. In finding the G. C. D. of two numbers, why do you 

divide the divisors by the remainders resi)ectively 
preceding ? 

81. Where did we get the abbreviations lb., oz., d., £, 

pwt., cwf., cong. ; and the characters ,^, o, 5 ? 

82. Is there a standard for securing accuracy in weights 

and measures? If so, what and where is it? 

83. State the difference between old style and new style. 

84. How many inches in a wine gallon ? In a beer gallon ? 

85. What are duodecimals? Who is the author of deci- 

mals ? 

86. Show how we multiply by a number a little less than a 

unit of the next higher order. 

87. Show, by example, how we multiply when one part of 

the multiplier is a factor of another part. 

88. Show, by example, how we multiply by a number which 

is an aliquot part of some higher unit. 

89. Define a solar, a sidereal, an astronomical, a fiscal, a 

Julian, a bissextile year. What kind of a fraction 
is.324i? 

90. How many pounds in 5 fothers? 

91. How fast should a man, starting at 6 o'clock a.m., 

travel westward, so that when it is noon with him 
it shall be o'clock p. m. where he started ? 



ARITHMETIC. (17 

92. How fast should a man travel eastward, so as to have 
his timepiece " one-(]iiarter of a day behind" at 
the expiration of a day? 

03. What do we mean by per cent. ? What by per- 
centage ? 

94. Define commission ; brokerage; corporation; stock. 

95. What is the difference l)etween a consignee and a 

consigner ? 

96. What is the difference between a charter and a firm ? 

97. When is stock at par? When below par? 

98. Name the common aliquot parts of 10. 

99. What is a debt ? What is a compound denominate 

number ? How many numerical scales are there ? 

100. Tell what we mean by a credit ; a debtor ; a creditor ; 

a bill ; the footing of a bill ; an account. 

101. Distinguish between ratio and proportion. 

102. Show, by example, that a proportion is an equality of 

ratios. 
108. Give a rule for compound proportion, and demon- 
strate it. 

104. What is the difference between percentage and in- 

terest ? 

105. What is the difference between compound proportion 

and arbitration of exchange ? 

106. Give the difference between commission in buying 

and commission in selling. 

107. Name some of the common abbreviations used in 

business correspondence. 

108. What is money? and of how many kinds is it? 

109. What is specie? What is paper money? 

110. Define space ; aline; a surface ; a solid. 

111. What are the measures of capacity? 

112. Describe a mint. And what do we mean by an alloy ? 

113. What are the ordinary coins? and also state of what 

the coin of the United States money consists. 

114. When was the ['New Coinage Act'' passed? 



68 LI VE Q UESTTO NS. 

115. What do we mean by Trade Dollar ? For what pur- 

pose is it designed ? 

116. How many cubic inches are there in a gallon of water ? 

117. How many pounds in a long ton? and how many 

grains are there in an Avoirdupois pound ? How 
many in a Troy pound ? 

118. What is the utiit of measure in duodecimals? and 

what is the scale ? 

119. What is the unit of land measure? and into what 

shaped tracts are Government lands usually sur- 
veyed ? 

120. What are these tracts called, and how many acres 

in a tract? 

121. What is the unit of measure for solids ? How is masonry 

estimated ? 

122. ^\idX\'i?i board foot? 

123. What is the difference between the United States 

bushel and the Imperial bushel of Great Britain ? 

124. Taking 2150.4 cu. in. for a bushel, can you give some 

convenient dimensions which can be taken, by a 
common 24-inch rule, for making a bushel box and 
a peck box, which shall differ very slightly from 
true measures ? 

125. Illustrate, by example, a rule for finding the amount 

to be insured at a given rate so as to cover a given 
amount and premium. 

126. What is given to find the rate per cent. ? 

127. Define legal interest; annual interest; compound in- 

terest ; usury ; accurate interest. 

128. Given the rate per cent., time, and amount; how do 

we find the interest? 

129. What is the difference between true discount and 

bank discount ? 

180. What is the principal for the common rule of equa- 

tion of payments ? Define commercial discount. 

181. Name the five fundamental cases in percentage. 



ARITHMETIC. {]<) 

VS'2. Show, by example, how the compound interest table 
is formed ; and give rule for computing compound 
interest. 

133. What are partial payments ? What is an indorse- 

ment ? 

134. What is the difference between the mercantile rule 

and the United States rule? Give the jjrinciple 
of Connecticut rule. 

135. Define a promissory note ; a negotiable note. 

136. What do we mean by the terms maker, payee, holder, 

indorser ? State when a note is not negotiable. 

137. Write a negotiable note, and transfer it by indorse- 

ment. 

138. The principle upon which bank discount is computed, 

is it right or wrong, in your opinion ? Define 
present worth.* 

139. What is the difference between a check and a draft ? 

140. Write a check ; a draft. Define a protest. 

141. What is a notary public ? 

142. Define the proceeds of a note. 

143. What is a tax? Real estate? Personal property? 

A property tax ? A personal tax ? An assessor ? 
An assessment roll ? 

144. What do you mean by a savings-bank ? 

145. What is stock-jobbing? An instalment? An assess- 

ment ? 
140. What are net earnings? What is a dividend? A 
bond ? 
, 147. What is the difference between the par value and 
market value ? 

148. How many kinds of U. S. bonds are there ? 

149. What is a coupon? What do you mean by 'Megal 

tender ? ' ' 

150. State how taxes are levied, and the individual taxes 

computed. 

151. Distinguish between analysis and position. 



70 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

152. Is position applicable to questions in simple interest? 

153. Distinguish between abbreviation and contraction, as 

the terms are commonly used by arithmeticians. 

154. Define specific duty ; ad valorem duty ; tare ; leak- 

age and breakage ; custom-houses. 

155. In what is the interest of all Government bonds pay- 

able? 

156. What is insurance? Fire insurance? Marine and 

inland insurance ? 

157. Define the policy ; the premium. 

158. What is an endowment policy ? An accident or 

health policy? 

159. How are Government securities designated ? 

160. What is a port of entry ? A clearance? A manifest? 

161. What is a tariff? What is free trade? 

162. What do we mean by averaging payments? 

163. What is the average time ? The term of credit ? 

164. Define partnership. Who are partners ? 

165. What do we mean by equated time? By focal date? 

166. What is the reciprocal of a ratio? 

167. Define the terms couplei, antecedents, consequents, 

extremes, means. 

168. Distinguish between simple proportion and compound 

proportion. And what do we mean by a state- 
ment ? 

169. Explain an example in compound proportion by cause 

and effect. 

170. What do we mean by the resources of a firm ? The 

liabilities ? The net capital ? 

171. Define alligation ; and distinguish between alligation 

medial and alligation alternate. 

172. Distinguish between a direct and an inverse propor- 

tion. 

173. What is a power ? How are powers named ? 

174. What is an exponent? Distinguish between involu- 

tion and evolution. 



ARITHMETIC. 7] 

175. What is a root? and how are roots named? 

176. What is the difference between a perfect power and 

an imperfect power ? 

177. How are decimals pointed off in square or cube root ? 

178. How do you find the root of a decimal ? Of a com- 

mon fraction ? 

179. Solve an example in square root ; an example in cube 

root. 

180. Define a series ; an arithmetical progression ; a geo- 

metrical progression. 

181. Show, by an example, how we find the sum of an 

arithmetical and a geometrical series. 

182. What is mensuration? A line? A straight line? 

A curved line ? /Vn angle ? A vertex of an angle ? 

183. Is it correct to say that length multiplied by breadth 

produces area ? 
\ 84. Which is greater, an arithmetical mean between two 
different quantities, or di geometrical vaQd^n} 

185. Define a polygon; a triangle; a parallelogram; a 

circle ; a radius of a circle ; the circumference of 
a circle ; a diagonal of a figure ; the perimeter of 
a figure. 

186. How is the area of a triangle, a parallelogram, a 

trapezium, a trapezoid, a regular polygon, a circle, 
computed ? 

187. What is a solid ? A prism ? A parallelopipedon ? 

A cylinder ? A pyramid ? A cone ? A frustum ? 
Sphere ? The altitude of a solid ? The convex 
surface of a solid ? A radius of a sphere ? 

188. Show, by example, how you find the convex surface 

of a prism or cylinder ; a frustum of a pyramid or 
cone. 

189. Show, by example, how you find the volume of 'a 

prism or cylinder ; a frustum of a pyramid or cone. 

1 90. How do we find the solidity of a sphere ? 

191. What is the metric system? 



72 LI V A' V U E S T I O X S. 

102. Wow OiX^ i\\<:i Jiigher denominations in the metric sys- 
tem expressed ? and how the lower denominations ? 

H)3. What is the unit of length? The unit of surface ? 
The unit of iwlume ? The unit of capacity ? The 
//;/// of weight ? 

1!)4. What is the base of the metric system ? 

105. How long is the meter? 

H)(). What is longitude? and what a meridian? 

107. What places have sunrise at the same time? Noon 
at the same time? Midnight at the same time? 

lOS. (}ive the rule for finding the difference in time when 
the difference in longitude of two places is given. 

100. Give the rule for finding the difference in longitude 
of two places, when their difference in time is 
given. 

200. What digit can aj)i)ear both in the order of tens and 
of units in a s(|uare number? 



Ai'ithnietical ProbleiTis. 



1. Reduce to the smiijlest lorm . X -. ■ -^ .• 

.05 .021(; .00027 

2. How many acres in a square field, the diagonal of which 
is HO rods longer than a side? 

3. Reduce to the simplest form 

1 1 .00-i 

2 70"6i ~57 .41| 
^'2 ^ " 1^" ^ .03f ^ .5()i 

8 7211 "35^ 

4. If I had bought at 25 </c less I should have made 30 
'/c more. What per cent, did 1 make? 

5. If I buy cloth at 75 cents a yard, how should it be 



ARITHMETIC. 73 

marked so that I can take 4 ^/o less than the marked price, 
and yet make (JO % ? 

(>. I bought a farm for $20(10, agreeing to pay princii)al 
and interest in three equal annual instalments. What is 
the annual payments, interest 6 ^/f, ? 

7. A conical wineglass, which is brimful, measures across 
the mouth G inches, and in depth 8 inches. What amount 
of water will run over if a sphere 4 inches in diameter be 
put in it ? 

8. Find the highest common divisor of 

.91|, .18f, .871 .121 
1). Find the highest common divisor of 
.138, .()G3492, .3i. 

10. The highest common divisor of three numbers is 15, 
and their lowest common multiple is 450. What are the 

numbers ? 

10 -^- 

11. — !^of-^of what number, diminished by ^^ 



3 10 -^- 



'71 J_ 7_ 



leaves --- • 
(i4 

12. How much less will it cost to fence 32 A. 64 P. in 
the form of a circle than in the form of a square ? and 
how much less in a square form than in a form of a rec- 
tangle, whose length is 4 times its width, the price in each 
case being $1.50 per rod? 

13. The first term of a geometrical progression is 1, the 
last term 15,(325, and the number of terms 7. Find the 
common ratio. 

14. If 12 men can empty a cistern, into which water is 
running at a uniform rate, in 40 minutes, and 15 men can 
empty the same in 30 minutes, how long will it require 18 
men to empty it? 

15. An old toper bought a barrel of whiskey, but sus- 
pecting the dealer had sold him water for whiskey, weighed 
the lic^uor to see if he were cheated. As it contained 252 
pounds, and a gallon of whiskey he considered 7.73 pounds, 



74 LIVE (QUESTIONS. 

and water 8.o(J pounds, how much should his figures show 
for the number of gallons of water in the barrel ? 

16. Find the thirds in a \, the /tint/is in |- and f to a 
fraction whose numerator shall be 8. Take the^sum of these 
fractions and name the result. 

17. At what times between (5 and 7 o'clock are the hour- 
hand and minute-hand 20 minutes apart? 

18. Divide .236 pwt. by 6.109 gr. 

19. Find the L. C. M. of 10 minutes . 1 second ; 1 hour 
10 minutes .7 seconds; 1.5 hour 1 second. 

20. If 24 pipes, each delivering 6 gallons a minute, fill 
a cistern 8 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 5 feet deep, in 12|4 
minutes, how many pipes, each flowing 8 gallons a minute, 
will fill a cistern 10 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 9 feet deep, 
in 21j^ minutes? 

.08i , .71 

21. Divide (99 + .7i-.4-JV)X -.Tr^y •^-^- 

22. The amount of a certain sum at interest, 12 ^/c, was 
just o times the principal. What was the time? 

23. There is a tree 80 feet in heiglit, standing by the 
bank of a river 60 feet wide. ^Vhere must this tree break off 
so that the top will reach across the river, while the broken 
parts remain in contact ? 

24. There is a rectangular box 8 feet long, 3 feet wide, 
and 2 feet deep. What must be the width and depth of 
another rectangular box of the same length that shall con- 
tain 768 cubic feet, provided they are in the same propor- 
tion? 

25. Reduce to its simplest form 

.003 + .O j-^ 5i + ^y-.7 i 
fof 6.6|--.0f' (4+ 3.41)- Of 

26. Extract the cube root of the following 

y:09+ V .25 — |A04 X 1/^36 

, ^09+(l^25-l ^T04)Xl^^' 

27. Find the number of men required to dig a ceHar 40.5 
feet long, 28.5 feet wide, 8.25 feet deep, in 10 days of 9.8 



ARITHMETIC. 75 

hours each, if 8 men can dig a cellar 27 feet long, 14.25 
feet wide, 5.5 feet deep in 7.5 days of 8.4 hours each. 

28. When Gen. Tom Thumb was 5 years old he measured 
2 feet in height, and weighed 1() pounds. What would be 
the weight of a man of similar form who was 6 feet tall ? 

29. What are the contents in barrels of a cistern in the form 
of an inverted frustum of a cone, the diameter of the bottom 
being 4 feet, that of the top 10 feet, and the depth 8 feet? 

3(1. How much square-edged inch lumber can be cut from 
a log 28 inches in diameter and 12 feet long? 

31. A., B., and C, are to share $100,000 in the pro- 
portion of \, \, and \, respectively; but C.'s part being 
lost by his death, it is required to divide the whole sum 
properly between the other two. 

32. A merchant sold goods to a certain amount on a com- 
mission of 4 '/f , and having remitted the net proceeds to 
the owner, received \ ^-/c for prompt payment, which 
amounted to $15.00. What was the amount of his com- 
mission ? 

33. What was the tonnage of Noah's ark, admitting its 
length to have been 470 feet, its breadth 80 feet, and its 
depth 48 feet? 

34. James received a draft for $60, which cost J ^/a to 
get it cashed ; what should have been the face, that I might 
have realized $60 ? 

35. Mr. S. K. Henrie sold on commission goods to the 
amount of $2375; having deducted 3*/^ as commission, he 
remitted a draft at 60 days for $2282.07 ; what was the rate 
of exchange? 

3(). What will be the cost of a sight draft on Philadel- 
phia for $550 at f f/c premium, and a 30-day draft for $2000 
at 1 ^jc premium ? 

37. If I buy railroad stock at 20 '^/c discount, and sell at 
10 */(, premium, what per cent, do I gain ? 

38. Which is the better investment, U. S. 5's at 75 </(,, 
or U. S. 6's at 85 f/c ? 



7fi LIVE QUESTIONS. 

39. When it is 15 minutes of 12 o'clock m. at Boston, 
longitude 71°4'0" W., what time is it at Chicago, longitude 
78"85' W. ? 

40. How many ounces of gold would it take to balance 
a pound of lead ? 

41. A man possessing a certain amount of U. S, 7-80's 
valued at 108 ^/p, exchanged them for an equal amount of 
Tennessee G's at 95 '/^. How much did he gain or lose by 
the transaction ? 

(U 91 . 08 

42. Divide -by -^1 of ^. 

43. What must be the face of a note to run 90 days, 
which, when discounted at (5 ''/ , will yield $1000? 

44. What is the cube root of .0079 to 4 decimal places? 

45. Find the least common multiple of 10^, 6J, 5f , 4i. 

46. What is the cube root of 1 007462648? 

47. What is the length of a piece of lead pipe whose 
inner diameter is 1^ inches, which contains exactly a quart 
of water? 

48. If 1 sell $6000 worth of 3 % stock at 91, and invest 
the proceeds in 5 (/f stock at 120, by how much do I in- 
crease or diminish my income ? 

49. How many feet of boards 1 inch thick can be sawed 
from a round log 18 feet long and 25^ inches in diameter, 
allowing ith of an inch as the thickness of the saw? 

50. A grocer buys butter at 28 cents per pound, and sells 
it at 60 cents per kilogram. Does he gain or lose, and what 
per cent. ? 

51. How many miles in 3482 meters? 

.472— .327 

52. What is the antecedent of — r-^ .-. the ratio 

, . ,. .581— .518 

bemg 4? 

.272 .427 

53. What is the consequent of ^-^-, ^ the ratio 

, . ii:j .381 — .218 

benig 1^ ? 

54. Mr. Tames is indebted $1000, gave his note for 



ARITHMETIC. 77 

$1040, 31, which was discounted at 1^ % a month. How 
long liad it to run if the proceeds discharged the debt? 

55. A note dated July 15th, 1876, at 3 months, was dis- 
counted at a Philadelphia bank August 1st ; the face was 
$000, and the proceeds. $590. 781. What was the rate? 

50. What must be the height of a pile of wood which is 
1^5 meters long, 1.12 meters wide, to contain 35 steres? 

57. How many hectares in 80. acres? 

58. How many pounds Troy in 3150 grams? 

59. How many bushels in 500 litres ? 
()0. How many miles in 3482 meters ? 

(II. Bought 5 shares of railroad stock at 108f, and after 
keeping it 11 months, received a dividend of $7 per share, 
and then sold the stock at $109i. What per cent, did I 
receive on my investment ? 

02. How many bushels of wheat will a hogshead of 03 
gallons capacity contain ? 

(13. The cube root of 3.5 is the square root of what num- 
ber? 

04. My agent at Havana has purchased for me 4500 boxes 
of sugar, 400 pounds each, at 5 cents per pound, and 2150 
hogsheads of molasses at 39i cents per gallon. When ex- 
change is at 3 J f^/c premium, gold at 111^, and commission 
•^i ^/c , what will be the currency value of a draft on Ha- 
vana to pay all expenses ? 

05. How many acres of land will be required for an 
orchard of 1000 trees set in rows 2 rods apart each way, 
there being also a space of 20 feet all around outside the 
trees ? 

00. A gentleman invested $12,480 current funds in U. S. 
5-20' s of '85, at 104. What will be his annual income in 
currency when gold is 110? 

07. A merchant had 500 barrels insured for 80 % of 
their cost, at 3^ ^/c, paying $107.25 premium. At what 
price per barrel must he sell the flour to gain 20 y^, ? 

08. If I have $36,500 to invest, and can buy N. Y. Cen- 



78 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

tral 6' s at 85, or N. Y. Central 7's at 05, how much more 
profitable will the latter be than the former? 

69. Find the sum of 9 terms of the series 1, 2, 4, 8, . . . 

70. Find the 8th term of the progression 2, 6, 18, 54, . . . 

71. Find the value of the decimal .212121 . . . . to 
infinity. 

72. Find the value of i — iH i — yV + A"— • • • • 
to infinity. 

73. Find the square root of 7 -[ 30 i — 2. 

1 To + 1 6 . . , 

74. Reduce — = zz^ to its smiplest form. 

1 10— 1 6 

75. I bought 8 ^/r stocks at 92; they fell to 85, and I 
then sold them and made of the proceeds a safe investment, 
paying 5 %, but not subject to fluctuation of value. How 
long must I hold it before I shall make a profit by the 
change, in case the 3 ^/f stocks should rise to their former 
value ? 

76. A room contains 432 square feet, and its breadth is 
to its length as 3 to 4. What are the dimensions of the 
room ? 

77. A watch which loses 4 minutes a day was set right at 
12 o'clock on April 10th. What will be the true time on 
April 20th, when the hands of the watch point to 12 o'clock ? 

78. A horse is tied by a rope to a stake in a meadow, 
the rope being attached to his head. How long must it 
be so that he can graze over an acre ? 

79; A garden, in the form of a rectangle, 128 feet long, 
and 112 feet wide, has a walk around it, within the border, 
4 feet wide ; also two walks, each 3 feet wide, one extend- 
ing from side to side, the other from end to end, crossing 
each other at the centre of the garden. Required, the area 
of the walks, and the area of the garden left for planting. 

80. Four men, A., B., C, D., bought a grindstone, the 
diameter of which was 4 feet; they agreed that A. should 
grind off his share first, and that each man should have it 



ARITHMETIC. 79 

alternately until he had worn off his share. How much 
(lid each man grind off, supposing the stone to be of equal 
thickness throughout? 

81. Two ships sail fr,om the same port; one goes due 
north 12.S miles, the other due east 72 miles. How far are 
the ships from each other? 

82. A gentleman has a note in a bank, on which he re- 
ceived $575 for 3 months, at 4 % discount ; and in order 
to take up the note, he goes to another bank, and obtains 
the money for 6 months, at 6 %. For what amount was 
the last-named note given ? 

83. A well was dug in a circular form, 6 feet in diameter, 
and was then lined with a wall 8 inches thick. When the 
water is 1 1 feet deep, how many hogsheads does it contain ? 

84. A horse is teddered by a rope 45^ feet long. What 
is the area of the ground upon which he can graze? 

85. What must I pay for Government 5's of '81, that 
my investment may yield 7 % ? 

8G. What is the more profitable, and how much — to buy 
New York 7's at 105, or 6 per cent, bonds at 84? 

87. How many shares of the Bank of Commerce, bought 
at llOi, and sold at 11()|, — brokerage, ^ % on the purchase 
and sale,— will gain $1200? 

88. Four ladies own a ball of thread, 8 inches in diam- 
eter. How much of the diameter must each wind off so as 
to share the thread equally ? 

89. There are three balls, whose diameters are 3, 4, and 
5 inches respectively. Required, the diameter of a ball 
which contains as much as the three. 

90. Find the greatest common divisor of 164G|- quarts 
and .93^ hogsheads. • 

91. Find the least common multiple of 2 bushels ^ peck ; 
44f pecks; 19.96875 bushels. 

92. When apples cost $3.(50 a barrel, what must be the 
asking price, that, if an abatement of 12^ '^ is made, there 
will still be a profit of lOf <^ ? 



m LIVE QU E ST TO NS. 

93. If I buy 10 shares in 1st series, S in 2d, and 10 in 
3d, of Investment Building Association ; if these series run 
out in 8, 8i, and 9 years respectively, how much money in 
monthly dues will then have bet^ paid in on the three 
series when closed out ? ^ 

94. Required, the number of acres in a field having length 
to breadth as 5 to 4, and a fence, 7 ij|ils high, with 2 panels 
to the rod, and just as many rails as acres. 

95. What common fraction will produce the repetend 
.i(H)34()57? 

9(). Before me there is a series of 7 consecutive odd 
numbers. The sum of the series is 11|^ times the first 
term. What is the last term ? 

97. The product of two numbers is 240, and the quotient 
of 3 times the greater by the less is 5. Find them. 

98. Find the smallest whole number, when divided by 
l!>, leaves 16 for a remainder, and, when divided by 15, 
leaves (» for a remainder. 

99. Having the side of a cube, how can you find its 
diagonal? 

100. What digit can appear both in the order of tens 
and of units, in a square number? 

101. What is the inside measure of a cubic box which 
shall contain exactly 2 bushels? 

1 02. Paid an agent $0.70 cartage and $27 freight on $6300 
worth of goods; his entire bill was $0680.20. What was 
the rate per cent, of his commission ? 

1 03. A man rents a house at $300 a year, i)ayable monthly, 
in advance ; the rent remains unpaid for 3 years. What is 
the interest due at 6 % ? 

104. What is the face of a draft payable 00 days after 
sight, that will cost $052,925^ exchange H ^/r, and interest 
'/r ? 

105. The monthly instalment on a building association 
share is $1. What is a share worth at ^/f, interest at the 
ex[)iration of 4 years? 



ARITHMETIC. R1 

10(1. What is the G. C. D. of 174, I8-I-, and ^„"^^^? 

71 

107. What is the L. C. M. of IG^, 18i, and ^\ ? 

108. When a $5 bill is worth $4.44f in gold, what is the 
premium on gold ? 

loo. I buy two loans of 15 shares each in 1st and 5th 
series, at the beginning of the 5th series, at $9 and "stated 
premium," gross plan. What rates of interest shall I pay 
if both series run out in 91 years ? 

110. What equated rate per cent, of profit has been made 
by the 4th series of the Greensburg Building Association, if 
at the end of 28 months it is worth $38.2(j a share ? 

in. Find the value of ----.-^-._^,^^-X). 

112. The net proceeds of a shipment of hay, sold at $14 
per ton, after deducting a commission of 8 (/o, and $500 
for other charges, were $C),290. How many tons of hay 
were shipped? 

118. If a cistern 191 feet long, lOi feet wide, and 12 
feet deep, hold 540 barrels, how many barrels will a cistern 
contain that is 18 feet long, 9 feet wide, and 15 feet 
deep ? 

114. James Jones owes three notes to John Samuels ; one 
of $2(m, due in 8 months ; another of $200, due in 16 
months ; and the third of $400, due in two years. Should 
the three notes be converted into two notes of equal amount, 
one to run one-half as long as the other, when ought they 
to be made payable ? 

115. A. owes B. $500, payable in 4 months ; at the close 
of 2 months he wishes to make such a payment as will ex- 
tend the time of the balance to one year. AVhat must be 
the payment? 

116. If $600 gain $72 in 1 year and 6 months, in what 
time will $850 gain $189,881? 

117. A rectangular piece of land, containing 8 acres 72 



82 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

square rods, is half as wide as it is long. What is the distance 
around it ? 

118. The longitude of Springfield, Mass., is 72^85'45" 
W., and Constantinople 28^49' E. When it is o'clock 
A.M. at the latter place, what time is it at the former? 

110. A person travelled from New York to Harrisburg 
in 12 days, walking 4 miles the first day, G miles the second, 
S miles the third, and so on. How far is Harrisburg from 
New York ? 

120. Find the value of 1.0125-^ correct to the 4th deci- 
mal place. 

121. How many strokes of a common clock are struck 
in 24 hours ? 

122. A man wishes to inclose a circular field which shall 
contain ^^^th as many acres as it will require rails to build a 
fence around it ; the rails being 15 feet long, and the fence 
(! rails high. How many acres must there be in the field? 

128. A.'s money was to B.'s as 2 to 8 ; when A. spent 
$40, and B. had spent 40 ^f more than A., A.'s money, 
minus $20, was to B.'s money, plus $2, as 4 to 0. How 
much had each at first ? 

124. A cistern 15 feet deep, will hold 5,040.102 gallons. 
What is its diameter? 

125. In how many different ways may the letters of the 

alphabet be arranged, taking 15 each time? 

3 of 41 
120. Reduce ^ ^ of 4j-. 51^/. to the fraction of ^ of 

P\l_ _!_ * •' 

127. The area drained by the ponds and lakes which 
supply the city of Brooklyn with water is 62i square miles, 
upon which the average annual fall of rain is 38|- inches; 
the average daily supply to the city is 20,000,000 gallons. 
How much water falls for every gallon conveyed to the city ? 

128. If 872 men, in 7^ days of 11 hours each, dig a 
canal of 7 degrees of hardness, 810 yards long, 5i yards 
wide, and 2^ yards deep, in how many days of 8 hours 



ARITHMKTIC. 83 

earli will 27 men dig a canal of -1 degrees of hardness, 270 
yards, 7 yards wide, and 3^ yards deep? 

120. A grocer cut off from a cheese a segment which 
took i of the circumference, and weighed -A pounds. What 
did the whole cheese weigh ? 

130. At what time, first after 3 o'clock, will the hands 
of a watch be at right angles ? 

131. What is the interest of 17 cents for 1 month and 
13 days, at 5^ per cent, per annum ? 

132. One number divided by another gives a quotient 
of 10.24; the product of the two is 6400. What are the 
numbers? 

133. A man put out his money at 5^.. At the end of 
the first year he received $100, which paid the interest and 
a portion of the principal ; at the end of the second year 
he received $170, to a like effect ; the third year, $400 ; 
and the fourth, $500. Then there were due him only 
$75.17. How much did he put out on interest? 

134. Stock bought at 15''/. discount pays "i^'^^'/c on in- 
vestment. To what premium should it now rise to pay G'/r 
on investment ? 

135. The four sides of a field, whose diagonals are ecjuid 
to each other, are 25, 35, 31, and 10 poles, respectively. 
What is the area? 

136. What equal annual payments will, in ten years, pay 
the principal and interest of $1000 at 6% ? 

137. How should goods that cost $l.cSO be marked, so 
that the merchant may take off 10%, and still make 20''/ ? 

138. The difference in time between Rome and Buff"alo 
is 6 hours 5 minutes 28i|- seconds ; Rome is in 12^27' 14" 
East longitude. What is the longitude of Buffalo? 

139. A., B.^ and C, start from the same place to travel 
around an island, a distance of 84 miles; A. travels 21 
miles a day, B. i as far as A., both in the same direction, 
and C. travels twice as far as B. each day, in the opposite 
direction. Wlien will they all be together? 



84 ■ LIVE qUESTlO N S. 

140. A.'s capital was to B.'s as 7 is to 0, but after each, 
by trading, had added $20 to his amount, their capital stood 
in the ratio of 13 to 10. How much had each at first? 

141. Two adjoining farms rent for $400 a year, rent being 
],)aid in the one case semi-annually, and in the other quar- 
terly. What would be the difference in the amount of the 
rent of each for 25 years, interest 8 ^/ ? 

142. How many shares can be bought for $1145 in U. S. 
5-20' s at 114f, brokerage i ^/f ? 

143. Find the par value, and the number of shares of 
Kansas O's bought at 18 % discount, and sold at 10^ ^/p 
discount at a gain of $140, brokerage each way \ '/c- 

144. What sum must I invest in U. S. 5's of 1881 at 1 10 J, 
brokerage i %, to give $1000? 

145. Find the rate per cent, realized from U. S. 5-20's 
bought at 1 14J , brokerage -§• % • 

140. If I invest $10,000 in U. S. 10-40'sat 115, when gold 
is worth 1121, what rate per cent, do I receive on my in- 
vestment ? 

41. I 7JL 71 v 4-1- 1-1-1 
147. Find the value of , I "^ l; -^ J-^-^ X v-^ 



0<i 
1^ 

148. Find the value of 



l^i 



87 ^ .01(5 X 6^ -h -071 ^ f (.007,%). 

140. Mr. Mason, through his broker, invested a certain 
sum in U. S. O's, 5-20, at 107^, and twice as much in U. 
S. 5's of '81, at 081, brokerage on each 1 '/r- His income 
from both investments is $167-1:. How much did he invest 
in each kind of stock? 

150. A man owes a debt to be paid in 4 equal instalments 
of 4, 9", 12, and 20 months respectively ; a dis'count of 5 % 
being allowed, he finds that $1500 ready money will pay the 
debt. What is the amount of the debt? 

151. One-half of A.'s money equals \ of B.'s, and the 



ARITllM F.TIC. 85 

interest of JJ of A.'s and ^ B.'s money, at 4 per cent., for 

2 years 3 months, is $1.S. How much has each? 

152. A. sold ]]. a watch for $00, and gained 2(1 per 
cent. ; afterwards B. sold it, and lost 20 per cent, on what 
it cost him. How much did B. lose more than A. gained? 

If)!]. James bought a lot of lemons, at the rate of 2 for 

3 cents; but finding them damaged, he sold them at the 
rate of o for 2 cents. What per cent, did he make ? 

154. Henry sold melons at 8 cents each, and lost ^ of 
the first cost. What per cent, would he have lost by sell- 
ing them at 3 for 25 cents? What percent, would he have 
gained by selling them at 2 for 25 cents? 

155. When sugar is worth 7 cents a pound, a package 
was sold for 24 cents, gaining 3 cents. For how much 
should a package weighing twice as much be sold, to gain 
5 cents when sugar costs 8 cents a pound? 

15G. If sugar worth 3|^ cents a pound be mixed in equal 
quantities with sugar worth ()|- cents, what will ^ a pound of 
the mixture be worth, and how many pounds must be given 
for $\ ? 

157. If I sell my sugar at a certain price per pound, I 
will lose $1 ; but if I increase the price 3 cents per pound, 
I will gain 50 cents. How many pounds have I ? 

158. If 1) men mow a field in 12 days, how many men 
can mow \ of it in |- of the time ? 

150. If J-y of A.'s, 2V of B.'s, and 1 of C.'s money, be 
put on interest at 10 f/o for 2 years and (> months, and if 
the interest thus accruing be put on interest at f of the 
former rate, for 4 years 3 months and 18 days, it will 
amount to $029. How much money has each, if 2|- of 
A.'s ])art of the principal is f of B.'s, and {f of B.'s part 
of the principal is ^ of C. 's ? 

100. The interest of the sum of ^ of A.'s and -| of B.'s 
fortune, for a certain time, at 2 per cent., was to this sum 
as 9 to 250 ; and the amount of this interest for 25 times 
as long, at 10 times as great a per cent., was $180. What 



86 /> / VE Q UE S TIO NS. 

was eacli of the fortunes, })rovi(led A.'s fortune was to H.'s 
as 1 to 3? And how long was the first on interest? 

1(51. If John is 85 years old, and his father is Gd, how 
long since John's age was ^V the age of his father? What 
was then the age of John and of the father ? 

1()2. Two boats leave a wharf at the same time for the 
same point ; it takes one boat 10 hours to reach it, and the 
other boat sails 5 times as fast going, and 10 times as fast 
returning. When do they meet ? 

168. John said to James: "My age is 10 years more 
thiwi yours ; l3ut 6 years ago my age was ~\ of what yours 
will be 6 years hence." What was the age of each? 

164. A staff, whose length is 38 feet, is in the air and 
water; and the length in the air, — 2 feet, equals 4 times 
the length in the water, -|- 6 feet. Recj^uired, the length in 
the air. 

165. I had $50, and after spending some of it, what I 
had left was ^V of what 1 had spent. How much had I left ? 

166. The parallel sides of a trapezoid are respectively 10 
rods and 8 rods, and the altitude () rods. What is its area? 

167. What would tlie lumber cost, at $40 per 1000, to 
build such a vat, if the sides were of l.V-inch plank, and the 
bottom was 2-inch plank ? 

168. What is the volume of a frustum of a pyramid the 
lower base of which is 20 feet square, the upper base 10 feet 
scjuare, and the altitude 20 feet? 

169. How much water will fiU^a tube of 1 inch diameter 
of bore and 1 mile long? 

170. If a pole 10 feet long casts a shadow 18 feet long, 
what is the length of a pole which' will cast a shadow 62^ 
feet long at the same time? 

171. If cost had been 100 f/^ more, gain would have been 
100 '/( less. What was the gain per cent. ? 

172. Henry sold goods at 100 ^ gain ; but if he had 
given $15 more for them his gain would have been only 
20 (/c. What did the goods cost him? 



ARITHMETIC. 87 

178. What is the liour, if | of the time since 7| o'clock 
A.M. ecjiials }, of the time to iV.J o'clock p.m. ? 

174. What must be the height of a range of wood which 
is lif) meters long, 1.12 meters wide, to contain 85 steres ? 

175. When wine is 2 francs a liter, what is it a gallon in 
United States money, the value of a franc being lO^y cents ? 

17(1. If a ball of thread 4 inches in diameter should be 
reduced to half that diameter, what part of the thread will 
remain ? 

177. Find the square root of ^|, to within less than y-Q^-jj. 

178. What is a mean proportional between 7 and 252 ? 
171). Express as a series .135185 -| , in which the figures 

185 continually repeat in the same order. 

bSO. Express a common fraction in its lowest terms the 
circulate .27. 

181. Express as a mixed decimal .2251). 

182. Mr. Horner slaughtered three fat oxen, wliose aver- 
age live weight was 1550 pounds. He j)aid for them $225, 
and sold the meat at 8^ cents per pound. How much did 
lie gain ? 

188. When corn is 50 cents a bushel it costs to raise pork 
(i cents a pound, net weight. I have 5 fat hogs, fed when 
corn was 50 cents per bushel, whose average live weight is 
540 pounds. How much should they bring when dressed 
to net me $5 each ? 

184. How many common brick, laid on edge, will be 
required to pave a walk 89 feet long and 8 feet wide ? How 
many days will it take a bricklayer to lay them in cement? 

185. A beam 8 inches deep, supported at the ends and 
loaded in the middle, will just sustain 4000 pounds. How 
much more would it sustain if its depth were 10 inches? 

I8(i. 1 invested $1460 in 4^- per cents at 100^-, and sold 
when they had fallen, losing $100, inclusive of the double 
brokerage of ^ '/c. At what price did I sell ? 

187. Area of France is 58027804 hectares; express this 
area in square miles. 



88 • LIVE Q U E S T JON S. 

188. Find in kilometers the length of a tunnel 2 miles 
03 chains 18 yards long, 

181). How many times as strong is a joist 2}j inches wide 
and 12 inches deep, as one 3^ inches wide and i) inches 
deep? 

190. How many half-inch spherical musket-balls can be 
made of 25 pounds of lead ? 

191. How many times as strong is a joist 1") inches dee]) 
and 2.V inches thick, when sup})orted on its narrow side as 
when supported on its broad side ? 

192. My watch and chain cost y as much as my watch ; 
o times the price of my chain -j twice the price of my 
watch = $190. What did each cost ? 

191). How many circular openings ^V^^^ ^^ '"^^^ '^^^'^^ ^^^ 
diameter will let out from a shower-bath the water running 
in through a ])ipe of | inch bore? 

194. How many pounds of sheet-zinc, weighing o i)oun(ls 
to the square foot, will line the bottom and sides of a tank 
8 X 10 feet and 2^ feet high? 

195. The age of A. is | of the age of 1)., and the sum 
of their ages -| half the age of B. ■= twice the age of A. — 
2 years. AVhat is the age of each ? 

190. A. and B. together can do a job of work in K! days ; 
they work 4 days, when A. leaves, and B. finishes the work 
in 8() days more. In how many days can each do it? 

197. Two men formed a partnership for 1 year ; the first 
put in $100, and the second $200. How much must the 
first put in at the end of months to entitle him to half 
of the profits ? 

198. I sold goods at 100 r/^ gain ; had they cost $50 
more I should have gained ooj- ^/o. What did they cost? 

199. If cost had been 5 ^/o less, gain would have been 
% more. What was the gain per cent. ? 

200. At a (piarter to 4 o'clock, how many minutes before 
the minute-hand overtakes the hour-hand ? 

201. I bought some books at wholesale price, which was 



ARITHMETIC. 89 

\ off from list or retail prices, and was allowed a further 
discount of 5 ^'/o for cash. Find the net cash price of books 
worth $Hl(l retail. 

202. The interest of the sum of \ of ^Simpson's, f of 
I^vyer's, and /'^ of Domer's fortunes, for 3 years 7 months 
and G days, at 10 %, is such as will in the same time, at 
half the rate per cent. , amount to $5o I. What is the fortune 
of each, provided l\ times Domer's part of the principal 
equals | of Eyer's, and -^-^ of Eyer's part of the principal 
equals i of Simpson's? 

208. If a third of (> be ?>, what will a fourth of 20 be? 

204. If 3 be a third of G, what will a fourth of 20 be? 

205. James is 40 years old, and Alfred is 2. In how 
many years will Alfred be half as old as James? 

206. The area of the bottom of a cubical cistern is 12^ 
square feet. If two pipes connect with this cistern which 
will fill it in 10 and 12 minutes respectively, also another 
which will empty it in 15 minutes, how many cubic feet will 
be filled by leaving all three pipes open for 5 minutes? 

207. How far is it from one of the lower corners of a 
cubical box, measuring 6 feet on each side, to the opposite 
upper corner ? 

208. Joseph, selling a lot, gains a certain per cent. Had 
the lot cost 10 ''/ less, and sold for the same, his per cent, 
of gain (on the new base) would have exceeded the former 
rate by 101. What is his per cent, of profit ? 

200. The largest bottle in the world is supposed to have 
been made 'in Leith, Scotland. It was cylindrical, 40 
inches in diameter, and 42 inches in height. How many 
United States wine gallons did it hold? 

210. Find the solid contents of a cone 12 inches high, 
and 15 inches in diameter at the base. 

211. The frustum of a pyramid has a slant height of 40 
feet, a top 15 feet square, and abase 50 feet square. Re- 
quired, the convex surface. By how much does the entire 

surface exceed that of the frustum of a cone whose slant 

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00 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

height is 3 yards, the radius of its base being (I feet, and 
the radius of its top (> inches? 

212. If 5 bushels 2 pecks 4 quarts of barley are sold for 
£1 lOj-. G^/., how much, at the same rate, would $100 
buy, £1 being equivalent to $4.8005? 

213. The net proceeds of a bankrupt's assets are $819.50 ; 
his liabilities are $149,000; A. and B. together receive as 
their share of the dividend $19,591. What was the original 
claim of each, if B.'s claim was 30 f/c of A.'s? 

214. With gold at 113, which pays the better interest 
on an investment: U. S. currency O's at 116|, or 5-20's 
at 1201 ; and how much ? 

215. What is the cube of .3? What is the reciprocal of 
2.8? 

21G. What fraction equals 3.03—1.04 ? 

217. If A. and B., with C, working half time, can build 
a wall in 21 days ; B. and C, with D., working half time, 
in 24 days; C. and D., with A., working half time in 28 
days; D. and A., with B. working half time, in 32 days; 
in what time would it be built by all together, and by each 
alone ? 

218. A wine merchant bought 180 liters of brandy in 
Havre, at 321 decimes a liter ; he paid 21 decimes a liter 
shipment, and $2.25 a gallon duty, and sold it in New 
York at $0.75 a gallon. What was his gain ? 

219. If I buy Michigan G'sat 108, interest payable semi- 
annually, what annual rate per cent, do I receive ? 

220. If I buy 15 shares United Companies of* New Jersey 
at 137^ ($100), and receive $37^ dividend cjuarterly, what 
annual rate of interest do I receive? 

221. An interest-bearing note, dated Aug. 1st, 1872, at 
90 days, was discounted at 8 '/^ ; the face was $750, and 
the proceeds $759,982. What was the date of discount? 

222. f of 1 of the square of a number multiplied by f of 
f of the square root of a number equals 1. ^Vhat is the 
number ? 



ARITHMETIC. 91 

223. The fourth power of a number, divided by the 
square of the number, ecjuals 40. What is the number? 

224. John sent a draft for $21,250 to a Detroit broker, 
to invest in Michigan G's at lOG ; he remitted me a balance 
of $25. What rate of brokerage did he charge? 

225. Mr. Jackson has invested $8475 in lO-40's at U)\. 
What will be his semi-annual income in currency, gold 
being 110? 

22(J. How many shares of North Pennsylvania R.R., at 
49, must be sold, that the proceeds, invested in Pennsyl- 
vania State 6's, at 115^, may give an income of $(J0O, 
brokerage being deducted ? 

227. The square root of a certain number J- 24, equals 
twice the difference between the square of the number and 
2. What is the number ? 

228. 2 times a certain number -f 100, equals 4 times 
the sum obtained by increasing the number by 20. \\ hat 
is the number? 

229. The amount of a sum of money for o years is $230, 
and the amount for 4 times as long, at ^ the same rate, is 
$200. What are the sum and rates per cent. ? 

230. A boat, whose rate of sailing is 5 miles an hour, 
moves down a river whose current is 3 miles an hour. How 
far may it go that it may be back in 10 hours ? 

231. John and Hanry can mow GO acres of grass in G 
weeks, and ^ of what John can mow in a day equals what 
Henry can mow in a day. How long will it take each to 
mow it ? 

232. M. can drink a keg of cider in 9 days; f of what 
M. drinks in a day equals \ what N. drinks, and also \ of 
what R. drinks; after all had been drinking ^y of a day, N. 
and R. drink the remainder. How long did it take them ? 

233. A company of 20 persons engage a dinner at Mr. 
Jones's hotel, but after paying the bill 5 of the company 
withdraw, by which each person's bill was increased 50 
cents. What was the bill? 



92 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

234. How many bushels of lime can be burnt at one time 
in a kiln 14 feet long 10 feet wide and 11 feet deep? 

235. I offered my house and lot to a purchaser for $7500, 
$1000 cash, and the balance in 5 equal annual payments 
with interest at 6 % ; but he wished to pay $1000 cash, 
and 5 annual payments of $1600 each, without interest. 
Which payments would be the more economical for the pur- 
chaser, provided money was worth 6 ^c ? 

230. Multiply the difference between MMDCCXLIV and 
1809, by 20.007 ~ 2,233. 

237. What is the difference between i of a cubic foot, 
and a cubic half foot ? 

238. What is the value of a pile of wood 10 rods long, 
4 feet wide, and 6^ feet high, at $3.56i per cord ? 

239. What are the contents of a piece of ground 40 rods 
long, 5 rods wide at one end, and ^ foot wide at the 
other ? 

240. When gold is worth $1.37^ in currency, how much 
gold will one dollar in currency buy? 

241. Sold 20 bushels of oats at 50 cents per bushel, and 
lost 8 ^/f. What per cent, would have been gained had they 
been sold at 00 cents? 

242. Bought a horse for $175, and sold him for i of V 
of his cost. What per cent, did I gain? 

243. From sixteen thousand three hundred seventy-five 
and sixteen hundred-thousandths, subtract fourteen thousand 
three hundred forty-five and one hundred fifty-three mil- 
lionths, and divide the remainder by five thousandths. 

244. What number is that whose i + i + ^L- = 128? 

245. A person aged 27 takes out a 10-year endowment 
policy for $5000 ; the dividends reduce his annual interest 
premiums 15 ^, on the average. Computing annual interest 
at 7 ''/ on his premiums, does he gain or lose, and how much? 

24(j. Henry Ivison, through his broker, invested a certain 
sum of money in New York State (i's, at 107^, and twice 
as much in U. S. 5's of '81, at 98^, brokerage in each case 



ARITHMETIC. 93 

i </f . The annual income from both investments was $3348. 
How much did he invest in each kind of stock? 

247. A man owns a house which rents for $145(1, and the 
tax on which is 2| y^ on a valuation of $8,500 ; he sells for 
$15,300, and invests in stock at !HI, that pays 7 ^/f dividends. 
Is his yearly income increased or diminished, and how much ? 

248. A man bought a house for $5000, and sold it for 
10 f/( more than he gave for it, and 4 (/( above its estimated 
value. What was its estimated value ? 

249. What is the square root of '"^OyL? 

250. When gold is $1,095 in currency, how mu(h gold 
will $9^^ in currency buy ? 

251. A note of $500, being on interest at 7| '/f , amounted 
to $678.25. What was the time ? 

252. For what must I give my note at a bank, payable in 
1 year 6 months 15 days, at 7y% %, to obtain $1000? 

253. Sold cloth, and made 75 cents per yard, which was 
15 f/f of the cost. What was the cost? 

254. What is the cube root of 101,847.503? 

255. A. can do a certain piece of work in 4 days, B. in 
days, and C. in 5 days. In what time can all do one- 
half the work ? 

256. Five families employ a teacher for 200 days for 
$1000, agreeing to pay his salary in proportion to the num- 
ber of pupils each sends. It was found that the first family 
sent 3 pupils 100 days each ; the second, 5 pupils 150 days ; 
the third, 4 pupils 175 days; the fourth, 1 pupil 100 days; 
and the fifth, 5 pupils 130 days. What should each family 
pay? 

257. A. and B. are partners; A.'s stock is toB.'s as 4 to 
5 ; after three months, A. withdraws | of his capital, and 
B. f of his ; their year's gain is $1675. How much is each 
partner's share ? 

^ of A of ^ of ^ -^ of -^-~ 

258. What is the quotient of t , ? ^, I \l-^ '^ ' ' ? 

^^ of 1 of 1 of i 8 

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94 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

259. What is the value of a pile of wood 15^ rods long, 
81 feet wide, and G feet high, at $3.25 per cord ? 

2(10. A note payable in (>(> days was discounted at a bank, 
and the proceeds were $5(M). What was the face of the 
note ? 

2G1. I have a piece of land 4 miles square. How many 
acres are there in it ? 

2()2. A square cornfield, with hills ^> feet apart each way 
in rows, contains 1849 hills. How many hills are there in 
a row ? 

2()3. Express three hundred million two hundred seven 
and fifteen ten-thousandths by the Arabic method. 

2(54. How many bushels will a box contain, that would 
hold a cord of wood ? 

2()5. What is the edge, inside measurement, of a cubical 
l)in that will contain 85 bushels of grain? 

2()(l. Find the distance from the centre to the corner of 
a room 12 by 24 feet. 

2r»7. A merchant imported from England 24 sacks of 
wool, weighing 2500 pounds, invoiced at Ij". 8c/. per pound. 
What duty did he pay in the United States money, the rate 
being 10 cents per pound and 11 ''/ ad valorem, 3 ^/( tare 
allowed? 

208. Find the value of 

08i 71 4 41 7^ 41 75 

i,''-' I •*2 -^in'^ 2^ ■ 8 ^8 5^ 25^881 ' 21.81 

209. The circumferences of two wagon-wheels are, re- 
spectively, 10 feet, and 15 feet (> inches. How many times 
more will the smaller wheel revolve than the larger, in 
going 2 miles? 

270. If 1 of f of j\ of f of- 1 of a vessel is worth i'878, 
how many dollars in gold is ^^ of it worth ? 

271 . B. 's draft for $150, drawn at 15 days' sight, is cashed 
at the bank at 8 ^/, bank discount. What does he receive 
for it ? 



ARirilMETIC. i)5 

'212. The difference of time between two })laces is 54 
minutes 20 seconds. Give the difference in longitude? 

273. Given 5, the first term of the series ; 3, the common 
difference ; and 176, the last term ; to find the nun.ber of 
terms, and the sum of the series. 

274. Multiply seven ten-thousandths by four-tenths, and 
divide the product by the difference between eight hun- 
dredths and seventy-three thousandths. 

275. When it is noon at Washington, what is the time 
at a place 18° 80' west from Washington? 

276. What is the hypothenuse of a triangle whose base 
is 86 feet, and whose perpendicular is 40 feet? 

277. Divide 00.875 by f . 

278. How many shares of Erie R.R., at 40, must be 
sold, that the proceeds, invested in Pennsylvania State 6's, 
at 1151, may give an income of $600, brokerage being 
deducted ? 

279. Find the value of 

7J- 1 5 + 2 1 — 5 2 — .5 

280. What is the present worth of $525.65, due Jan. 
15th, 1882? 

281. A merchant sold sugar at 10 cents a pound, and 
gained 12 ^/f . What per cent, would he have gained had 
he sold it at 18 cents a pound ? 

282. A. engaged in trade, Jan. 1st, with $820 ; May 1st, 
he took B. into partnership with $120 ; at the end of the 
year they had gained $84. What was each partner's share 
of the gain? 

288. My room is 20 feet square, and 10 feet high. Re- 
quired, the distance from an upper corner to the opposite 
lower corner. 

284. When it is o'clock a.m. at a certain place on the 
equator, what time is it 45° east of that place? 

71 y 1 

285. Reduce ./? - ^ to a simple fraction. 



96 LIVE (l VEST 10 NS. 

286. ^Vhat is the square root of twenty-eight hundred 
and nine millionths? 

2(S7. A young man expended .875 of a fortune, lost .25 
of it, and had $15(1(1 left. How much had he at first? 

288. Find the greatest common divisor of 121,. 87. 112, 
and 72. 

289. Find the compound interest on $272 for 3 years 
8 months o days. 

20H. If a sphere 6 inches in diameter weighs 24 pounds, 
what is the weight of one wliose diameter is 12 inches? 

291. A brewer has a vat which contains (i barrels of beer 
()-)6 gallons), and its length and height are each equal to 
twice its breadth. Required, its dimensions. 

292. The common difference is .05, number of terms 
KM), and one extreme is 5. What is the other? 

290. A.'s gain was 26 f/c, and B.'s 30 ^/f , and A.'s gain 
was $27 less than B.'s. What was the capital of each, iff 
of A.'s equals f of B.'s. 

294. Extract the square root of 77().]()l. 

295. Express in words 2.003004. 

296. How many rolls of paper, each 9 yards long and ^ 
yard wide, will cover the walls of a room 24 feet long, 16 
feet wide, and 7^ feet high ? 

297. Find the value of the following expression : 

23TTT004 + 1005.32 — .0004. 

298. When gold is worth $1.15 in currency, how mucli 
will $5.75 in currency buy? 

299. Bought a horse for $125, and sold him for $150. 
^\'hat was the gain per cent. ? For how much should 1 have 
sold him to gain 50 9^ ? 

300. If A. can do a piece of work in 8 days, B. in 6 days, 
and C. in 4 days, in what time can all of them do \ of the 
work ? 

301. Multiply .0307 by .0307, and divide the product by 12. 

302. What is the difference between 100 4 12^%, and 
1121—121-%? 



ARITHMETIC. 97 

303. How long a ladder will be required to reach up 25 
feet on the side of a building, the foot resting 10 feet from 
the bottom of the building ? 

304. At what rate can I afford to pay for bonds having 
10 years to run, at 8 % interest, payable annually, pro- 
vided I am willing to take 7 % interest for my money, and 
can invest my dividends at this rate per cent, as fast as they 
are received ? 

305. Sold 120 shares B. and O. R.R. stock at 126 %, 
par value $100, brokerage \ %, and invested proceeds in 
Boston and Maine R.R. at 91 '^^, brokerage -i- %. How 
many shares, par value $100, did I receive? 

306. Divide 16| by -t.6. 

307. What is the difference between the simple and com- 
pound interest of $2,006,875, for 4 years 9 months 24 
days? 

308. Divide five and five-tenths by nine ten-thousandths. 

309. What is the width of the narrowest room that may 
be exactly carpeted by either of two pieces of matting 
whose breadths are f yard and 1^ yard ? 

310. Give the compound interest, and the simple interest 
of $379 for 5 years 7 months 23 days. 

311. Memorandum. — Face of a mortgage, $4500. 

Date, January 15th, 1868. 
Payment of $2000, June 1st, 1871. 
Taken up, interest allowed January 

1st, 1873. 
What was the sum due ? 

312. A gem, weighing 3 ounces 14 pennyweights 10 
grains, was sold for $1.25 per grain. What was the sum 
received for it? 

3. of 75. 5 3. s 
Sre. Divide L°|I? by ^-X^- 

TT ^T2" ^^ 

314. Two men hire a pasture for $100; one man puts in 
8 cows, and the other 5 cows. What sum ought each to 

pay? 

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98 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

315. What is the length, in rods, of one side of a square 
field containing 40 acres? 

316. Sold $3000 of Philadelphia (j's at 101|, and invested 
the proceeds in Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank stock 
($100) at 121 ; what is my actual investment after deducting 
brokerage on both transactions ? 

317. I gave a broker $15,900 to invest in " Camden 
and Amboy" ($100); he bought 124 shares at 127-1-, and 
remitted me the balance, $28 ; what rate of brokerage 
did he charge ? 

318. A., B., and C. start at the same place, and travel 
round an island, A. making the circuit in f of a day, B. in 
I" of a day, and C. in f of a day ; in how many days will 
they meet at the starting-place, and how many times will 
each have gone round the island ? 

319. A pole 100 feet high is 1 foot in diameter at the 
base and \ inch at top. A vine growing out of the 
ground 8 feet from the base, touches the pole at 10 feet 
from the base or bottom, and winds around the pole once 
in every 6 feet to the top ; required, the length of the vine. 

320. Give the present worth of $1000, due in 6 months 
15 days. 

321. How long a ladder will reach to a window 20 feet 
from the ground, the foot resting 15 feet from the house ? 

322. How many bushels of wheat, by measure, will 1 
hhd. hold ? 

323. What number is that to which if -| of f be added, 
the sum will be 1 ? 

324. Find the product of f of f multiplied by 4 of f 
of |-. Find the value of the expression 

(.:^ + iof|of20)-^^[. 

325. What is the value of the expression (80 — 28.5 -f- 
100 — 50.5 — 90.1) -f- 50? 

326. Find the greatest common divisor of 225, 350, and 
175 ; also the least common multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 



ARITHMETIC. 99 

327. One-half of George's money equals two-sevenths of 
Henry's, and Henry has $187.47 more than George. How 
much money has each ? 

328. $15 interest is due on a $75 note. How long has 
the note been on interest, at 6 "/^ ? 

329. If by selling eggs at 12-1- cents per dozen, a profit 
of 25 f/c was made, what would have been the per cent, of 
profit or loss, had they been sold at 9 cents per dozen ? 

330. The solidity of a cubical block of marble is 1331 
feet ; what is the length of the block ? 

331. How many cords in a pile of 4-foot wood 12 feet 
long, 8 feet high at one end, and 6 feet high at the 
other ? 

332. If a man sell a horse for $140, and lose 30 %, what 
would be the gain or loss if the horse had been sold for 
$830 ? 

333. What is the distance from a point 20 yards from the 
foot of a pole to its top, the pole being 50 feet high ? 

334. A. can do a piece of work in 7 days, B. can do it 
in 5 days, and C. can do it in 8 days. In how many days 
could they all do it together ? 

i of ^ -3- of JJ- 12 

335. Reduce ^5—- -^ ^ — j — yo ^ 9q toasimple fraction. 

33G. If the pressure of the atmosphere is 15 pounds upon 
the square inch, what will it be upon a solid, 4 feet long, 
1 foot square at one end, and 2 feet square at the other ? 

337. What is the unit of the fraction f of a day? What 
is the fractional unit ? 

338. What is the difference between ^ of 2 and -| of 1 ? 

339. What is the difference between the true and bank 
discount of $200 for 1 year 6 months 12 days? 

340. A., B., and C., engaged in partnership, with a joint 
capital of $1000. A. put in stock for 7 months, B. for 8 
months, and C. for 12 months. Of the profits, A.'s part 



100 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

was $21, B.'s $40, and C.'s $24. What was the capital of 
each? 

341. What principal, at 71 ^, is sufficient to produce 
$206,381- interest in 183 days? 

342. Find the sum of 425, 4.25, and 17y%. 

343. A bin is 14| feet long, 9 feet wide, and 4 feet deep. 
What is the length of the side of a cubical box of the sanie 
capacity? 

344. How many cubic inches in a stick of timber 12 by 
18 inches, and 30 feet long? 

345. A certain piece of land which is ^ of a rod wide, 
contains an acre. Its length is what decimal part of a 
mile? 

346. The area of a right-angled triangle is 92 feet, and 
the perpendicular is to the base as 2 to 3. What is the 
length of the hypothenuse? 

347. I paid $1750 in cash for stocks, and after keeping 
them 18 months I sold them at an advance of 12 ^/c upon 
the cost and interest. For wlrat sum did I sell them ? 

348. What is the cost of a pile of wood 50 feet long, 6 
feet high, and 4 feet wide, at $3.50 per cord? 

349. If 8^ square yards will make a dress, how many 
yards in length will be required of goods f of a yard wide? 

350. An oblong field is 160 rods long and 120 rods wide. 
How many rods between the diagonal corners ? 

351. If a farmer has sufficient feed for 10 horses 12 
weeks, how long will it keep 7 horses ? 

352. Required, the cost of the brick to build a storehouse 
25 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 30 feet high, making allow- 
ance for two windows 8 by 4 feet each, and one door 7 by 
6 feet ; the walls to be 2 feet thick, each brick measuring 
8 inches by 4 inches by 2 inches, and the brick worth $5.50 
per thousand. 

353. What is the cube root of 101,847,563? 

354. What is the true discount of $1000 for 8 months 
10 days? 



ARITHMETIC. 101 



355. 1 • (64 X 16) ^ 4 X 13 = what ? 

356. When it is noon at Washington, what is the time 
1(P west of Washington ? 

357. Bought a barge-load of chestnut coal at $4,221 per 
long ton, and paid $2.00 per ton freight. At how much 
per short ton must it be sold to gain 15 (-/a ? 

358. How much money at compound interest will amount 
to $100 in 5 years? 

359. A cord 30 feet long unites the top of two 20-foot 
poles. How much longer must the cord be, to touch the 
ground midway between the poles ? 

360. How many cords of wood can be put into a shed 
21 feet square and 9 feet high? 

361. What is the average time of payment for $475 due 
in 6 months, $500 due in 9 months, and $200 due in 15 
months ? 

362. What is the sum due, January 1st, 1874, on a note 

for $5000, dated January, 1870 ; indorsed, October 1st, 

1871, $1500; November 1st, 1872, $1500; with interest at 

8 % ? 

35. 

363. Reduce — tV -^- +4 of -A^ to a decimal. 

109 13 1 / 

364. The grand list of a town is $4750.84, and the 
amount of taxes assessed is $1975. What is A.'s tax, whose 
grand list is $23.65? 

365. What is the length of a line reaching from the top 
of a tree 60 feet high, to a point on the plain 30 feet from 
the foot of the tree ? 

366. What is the difference between 100 with 15 •^ 
added, and 115 with 15 % subtracted? 

367. What is the present worth of $8650 due 1 year 7 
months hence, discounted at 6 "^ ? 

368. Bought prints at 8 cents per yard, and sold them 
at 13 cents. What per cent, did I gain ? 

369. By what number must 1\ be multiplied, that the 
product shall be 1 ? 

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102 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

370. A. can do a piece of work in 4 days, B. in 10 days, 
and C. in days. In what time can all, working together, 
do twice as much work ? 

371. How many barrels of flour, at $8.00 per barrel, will 
pay for 3000 pounds of potatoes, at 75 cents per bushel of 
60 pounds? 

372. What is the amount of a note for $100, dated Jan- 
uary 7th, 1870, at annual interest? 

373.. Divide one millionth by one billionth. 

374. Divide $12 between two boys, so that one may have 
^ more than the other. 

375. From f of a square yard take ^ of a yard square. 

376. If a man receive a legacy of $8000, and give 19 % 
of it to his wife, 37 ^/c of the remainder to his son, and 
$2000 to his daughter, how much will he have left? 

377. .0015 miles is what decimal of a rod? 

37g. Greensburgh, January 16th, 1877. 

On demand, I promise to pay A. B. or order, five 
hundred dollars, with annual interest, for value re- 
ceived. James Carleton. 
March 16th, 1878 : received $200. 
What was due on this note April 1st, 1879? 

379. What is the length of one side of a square plat of 
land which contains 87.61 square feet? 

380. If 8 men can do a piece of work in 14 days, work- 
ing 12 hours per day, how long will it take 12 men to do 
the same work by working 10 hours per day ? 

381. What is the difference between 4 times 9 and the 
square of 9 ? 

382. If -J of a certain number exceeds -| of itself by 10, 
what is the number ? 

383. A man spent all his income and ^ more the first 
year after he became of age ; afterwards, for 4 years, he 
saved each year a sum equal to -^ of his income ; and then, 
paying his debts, he had $90 left. Required, his annual in- 
come. 



ARITHMETIC. 103 

384. The greatest term in an arithmetical series is 70, 
the common difference 3, and the number of terms 21. 
What is the least term, and what the sum of the series ? 

885. If 20 men can perform a piece of work in 12 days, 
how many men will accomplish another piece 3 times as 
large in \ part of the time ? 

386. A person employed 4 workmen, to the first of 
whom he gave $2 more than to the second, to the second 
$3 more than to the third, and to the third $4 more than 
to the fourth ; their wages amounted to $32. What did 
each receive ? 

387. If I own y\ of a ship worth $6500, what part of her 
have I left after selling |- of f of any share, and what is my 
part worth ? 

388. Which is the better investment : 8 (/( stocks at 20 
% discount, or 12 (^/c stocks at 15 ^ premium? How much 
the better? 

389. If a weaver make 31.25 yards of carpet in a day, 
how long will it take him to make one yard ? 

390. A man falls 15 % from his asking price for goods, 
and still makes 25^ %. What per cent, is his asking 
price? 

391. A. did -| of a piece of work in 26 days, and he and 
B. finished it in 5i days. In what time could B. do the 
whole work ? 

392. Divide 1000 oranges among 10 men, 20 women, and 
40 children, giving each child twice as many oranges as 
each woman, and each woman twice as many as each 
man . 

393. A., owning f of a farm, sold ^ of his share to one 
son, and -| of the remainder of his share to another son ; 
what he retained was worth $875. What was the value of 
the whole farm ? , 

394. Divide f of .475 by .075 time i, and add three 
hundred thousand four and seventy-sixth millionths. 

395. A. paid i, B. -J-, C. ylg-, D. \ of the cost of an estate, 



104 LIVK QUESTIONS. 

and E. paid the balance. Their gain was $12, GOO. What 
was each man's share of the gain ? 

890. What number cubed will ])roduce 1,800,807? 

897. Jf a bird can fly 9-| miles in }. of an hour, at that 
rate how far can it fly in 9^. hours? 

898. If I travel 300 miles in days of 8 hours each, in 
how many days of 10 hours each can I travel 450 miles, 
traveling I- faster than at first ? 

399. A broker hires at a bank $500 for 90 days, at 1^ -/, 
a month. For how much must he give his note ? 

(00. A steamer, burned in 1809, had been insured by a 
single company 20 years, for $40,000, at 2^ (/c a year. What 
was the actual loss to the company, no allowance being made 
for interest? 

401. In 1872 the population of a western city was 28,873, 
which was C ^ greater than the census of 1871 ; the in- 
crease of 1871 over 1870 was 5 f/( , and the increase of 1870 
over 1809 was 5 %. What was the population in 1869? 



dXKck>- 



Arithmetieal Recreations. 

402. Who was the inventor of arithmetic ? 
408. In what age was it originated ? 

404. Who invented the decimal fraction ? 

405. Who was the author of the first i)rinted treatise on 
arithmetic ? 

400. Who invented logarithms? When? 

407. Name the oldest treatises on arithmetic. 

408. What can you say of Euclid ? When did he flourish ? 

409. By what method did Eratosthenes separate prime 
numbers from others ? 

410. Who first employed the signs -f- and — to denote 
addition and subtraction ? 



ARITHMETIC. 105 

411. Who invented the signs + ^^^ — ? 

412. Who invented =r, X, -^, l/? 

418. What is the basis of Pythagoras's multiplication 
table ? 

414. How did Pythagoras regard numbers? 

415. The rule of three is sometimes called what? 

416. Which is the more easily understood by pupils, the 
inductive method or the deductive method ? 

417. When and by whom were continued fractions first 
suggested ? 

418. When are two numbers called amicable? 

41!). Which is the most celebrated classification of num- 
bers ? 

420. What is a perfect number ? What an imperfect 
number? 

421. What is an abundant number? Give an example. 

422. Give an example of a perfect number ; of an im- 
perfect number. 

423. What quantity of water will be discharged from a 
pipe 5 inches diameter, 252 feet perpendicular height, the 
water flowing at the rate of 210 feet per minute? 

424. Required, the radius of the circle of gyration in a 
water-wheel 30 feet diameter ; the weight of the arms being 
12 tons, shrouding 2,^ tons, and water 15 tons. 

425. Three men bought a tapering piece of timber, 
which was the frustum of a square pyramid ; one side of 
the greater end was 3 feet, one side of the less end 1 foot, 
and the length 18 feet. What is the length of each man's 
])iece, supposing they paid equally, and are to have equal 
shares ? 

420. It is now 5 o'clock and 5 minutes. What time will 
it be when the hands of the clock make the same angle they 
do now? 

427. The diameter of circular field is 240 rods. How 
much grass will be left after 7 horses have eaten all they 
can reach, the strings which are allowed them being of 



106 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

equal length, and attached to posts so located that each 
can just touch his neighbor's territory, and none can reach 
beyond the fence ? 

428. Required, the sides of an isosceles triangle, con- 
taining 6 acres 12 perches, and whose base is 72 perches. 

429. " In the midst of a meadow well stored with grass, 

I took just an acre to tether my ass ; 
How long must the cord be, that feeding all round. 
He mayn't graze less or more than an acre of 
ground?" 




CHAPTER V. 



Geography. 



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What is the distance from North Pole to South Pole in 
degrees and in miles? 

What is the exact latitude and longitude of the place 
where you live ? 

What causes a difference in time at different points 
upon the same parallel ? A. and B. are at opposite 
ends of a telegraph; A.'s time is 10 a. m., and B.'s 
4 p. M. ; is B. east or west of A., and how many de- 
grees? A. and B. start from Pittsburgh, A. going 
10 degrees south and B. 10 degrees west ; which 
travels the greater distance ? 

What is the latitude of the Tropics and of the Polar 
Circles? 

What Grand Divisions are crossed by the Tropics? 
By the Arctic Circle ? 

Between what parallels and what meridians are the 
United States chiefly located ? 

What is the area of the United States ? 

Bound the Pacific Ocean ; Atlantic ; Indian. 

Through what countries does the Equator pass ? 

In what directions do the great mountain chains of the 
Old World pass ? 

In what directions do the great mountain chains of the 
New World pass ? 

What is the difference between a plain and a plateau ? 

(107) 



108 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

13. Where do the Eastern and Western Continents most 

nearly approach each other ? 

14. What large river grows smaller as it nears its mouth ? 

Why? 

15. In what direction do most peninsulas project? 
l(i Bound the Mediterranean Sea by countries. 

IT. Name the States bordering on the Mississippi River. 
LS. What waters are connected by the following straits : 

Gibraltar? Malacca? Dover? Bosphorus? Bab 

el Mandeb ? 

19. Locate the foUowiiig capes: Good Hope, Mendocino, 

Race, Cod, Verde, Hatteras, Trio, Bon. 

20. What is the prevailing form of government in the Old 

World ? 

21. What is the prevailing form of government in the New 

World ? 

22. What important Monarchy in the New World ? 

23. What important Republic in the Old World ? 

24. How do the grain ships from San Francisco reach Liv- 

erpool ? 

25. Trace a water-route from St. Louis to Yeddo ; from 

Chicago to Calcutta, by way of the Suez Canal. 
20. What countries supply most of the diamonds? 

27. What countries supply most of the india-rubber? 

28. What has been the effect of the discovery of petroleum 

upon whale fishery ? 

29. Where are the chief cod fisheries? 

30. Where are some of the chief oyster-beds ? 

31. What States in the Union have most coal ? Most salt? 

Most petroleum ? 

32. What is the population of the United States ? 

33. Name the chief countries where the English language 

is spoken. 

34. What nation is most advanced of the Mongolian 

race ? 



GEOGRAPHY. 109 

35. Locate Odessa, Valparaiso, Bombay, St. Louis, Phila- 

delphia. 

36. Under what dominion is Palestine ? 

37. Who are the reigning monarchs of England ? Of Ger- 

many? Of Russia? Of Brazil ? 

38. Who is President of France ? Who is Vice-President 

of the United States? 

39. Who is Secretary of State ? Of Treasury ? Postmaster- 

General ? 

40. Who is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ? 

41. Where do pine forests prevail, and where do bread- 

fruit and bananas grow ? 

42. Where is rice cultivated as the chief food of the people ? 

43. Name the chief wheat, corn, rice, cotton, and sugar 

States of the Union. 

44. Where is tea raised ? Which are the principal coffee 

countries? 

45. Where is indigo largely cultivated? 

46. What country produces most of the silk ? 

47. What countries produce large quantities of wood ? 

48. Locate the extensive grass-plains of the United States 

of South America. 

49. What is caoutchouc, and where obtained ? 

50. Where does mahogany grow, and what can you say of 

it? 
5L What people have oblique eyes? 

52. What are the social castes of India? 

53. What is the Ottoman Empire? What is the sacred 

book of the Mohammedans? 

54. What is a pariah ? A pasha? A brahmin? A coolie? 

A mandarin ? 

55. Who were the Native Americans, and what was their 

condition ? * 

56. Who are the Esquimaux ? Who the Laplanders ? 

57. What portion of Africa does the Negro inhabit? 

58. What other races inhabit Africa ? 

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110 " LIVE QUESTIONS. 

59. Why are there no large cities on the coast of Africa ? 

60. Do vessels require the same time in going from New 

York to Liverpool as from Liverpool to New York ? 

61. Where might the drift-wood come from that is cast 

ashore on the Shetland Islands ? 

62. What is the gulf-weed, and what is its origin ? 

63. What hinders Africa from being an island ? 

6-1. What is particularly noticeable of the Cassiquiari 
River ? 

65. Of what utility is geography ? 

66. Distinguish between geography and geology. 

67. Define the terms geography and geology. 

68. Name the divisions of geography; define each. 

69. Distinguish between a mountain system and a mountain 

trend. 

70. Give derivations of the terms cape, island, ocean. 
7L What do you mean by " forms of relief?" 

72. How long is North America? How wide? 

73. Where is the greatest volcano in the world, and how 

far do you hear its noise ? 

74. What parts of the earth's surface have day and night 

every twenty-four hours ? 

75. How many days and nights during the year, at a point 

half-way between the Arctic Circle and the North 
Pole ? How many at a point one-fourth of the way ? 
Three-fourths of the way ? 

76. What is the length of the longest day at each of the 

above points, and what time of the year does it oc- 
cur? (See No. 75.) 

77. In what direction from us is Australia? 

78. In what direction from the North Pole is Greenland ? 

79. Is the mean temperature of the Eastern and Western 
* Continents different? Why? 

80. What is the average depth of rainfall during a year 

within the Tropics of the Eastern Continent ? Of 
the Western Continent ? 



GEOGRAPHY. HI 

81. What is the average depth of rainfall during a year 

within the Temperate Zones of each Continent ? 

82. Give the causes of Western and Southern Europe 

having a warmer climate than the Atlantic States, 
in the same latitude. 

83. What results would follow a change in the relative 

amount of land and water surface ? 

84. What reasons to support the theory of an open Polar 

Sea? 

85. What physical results would follow doubling the time 

of the earth's revolution on its axis? 
8(). What would be the effect on our seasons by the sun 
being in the other focus of the earth's orbit ? 

87. What are the evidences that the sea- water was once 

fresh ? 

88. What are zones ? Define the term zone. 

89. Define the terms to?'rid, frigid, temperate. 
9(1. State the utility of rivers ; of mountains. 

91. In the same latitude, is a low or elevated country the 

colder ? Why ? 

92. Why are zones given their respective widths ? 

93. Where is the Land of Dates ? Why so called ? 

94. What three countries border on the Red Sea ? 

95. For what is the Nile remarkable ? Where does it rise ? 

96. What was the North Sea formerly called ? 

97. What are some of the chief causes that affect or de- 

termine the climate of any place ? 

98. Of what three classes do natural productions consist ? 

99. To what nation does Iceland belong ? 

100. What are the principal productions of the Torrid 

Zone ? Of the Temperate Zone ? Of the Frigid 
Zone ? 

101. What is the estimated population of the world? . 

102. What is the specific gravity of a body? 

103. What is the absolute weight of the globe? 

104. What tribes does the Malay race include? 



112 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

105. What division of South America has no seacoast ? 

106. On what island was St. Paul shipwrecked? 

107. What is Egypt? State the government and capital. 

108. What can you say of Siberia, and to what does it 

belong? 

109. What can you say of the principal town of Polynesia? 

110. What people are included in the African race? 

111. What sound in North Carolina and hay in Virginia 

are connected by a canal ? 

112. What constitutes the solar system? 

113. What position does the earth occupy in that system 

with respect to order? With respect to size? 

114. What is its distance from the sun? From the nearest 

fixed star? 

115. What is the orbit of the earth? Explain in full why 

it is a curved line. 

116. What inference may be drawn from the shape of the 

earth's shadow? Why? 

117. What is the exact form of the earth? Explain in full 

how this is proved by weight of bodies. 

118. What is the specific gravity of the earth? How as- 

certained ? 

119. What is a great circle? Name and locate the great 

circles. 

120. Why are the Tropics called small circles? Why are 

they so located ? 

121. Why are the Polar circles so located? What is the 

South Pole ? 

122. On what and by whatsis latitude measured? Longi- 

tude? 

123. Explain in detail why degrees of latitude increase as 

the poles are approached. 

124. What influences tend to diminish the severity of our 

winters ? 

125. What influences tend to increase the severity of our 

winters ? 



GEOGRAPHY. 113 

126. Why is the fall of rain and snow greater on mountains 

than on the plains ? Why greater on the land than 
on the sea ? 

127. What climatic differences, if any, exist on island and 

continent in the same latitude ? 

128. Why are there deserts ? Name the largest ones. 

129. Which of the Southern States is the most thickly set- 

tled? 

130. Name several islands belonging to Portugal ; to Spain. 

131. Is the Great Desert inhabited? If so, by whom? 

132. What great natural curiosity in California, and what 

can you say of it ? 

133. How many miles does the Nile flow without receiving 

a tributary ? Name the first tributary. 

1 34. What does the term tropic mean ? 

135. Why are our streams smaller than formerly? 

136. What causes t\\Qfogdii New Foundland? 

137. Most canals have locks ; why is the Suez Canal an 

exception ? 

138. How far below the level of the ocean is the surface 

of the Dead Sea? 

139. Explain the causes of high tides on opposite sides of the 

earth, when the sun and moon are in conjunction. 

140. What change occurs in degrees of longitude as the 

poles are approached ? Why ? 

141. How many and what motions has the earth? What 

time is required for each ? What is' the effect of 
each ? 

142. Prove that the earth rotates from west to east. 

143. What is meant by the terms year, civil year, covmion 

year, and leap year ? 

144. Describe the position of the sun and earth at the 21st 

of March, and give the limits of the illuminated 
hemisphere. 

145. Why are the days at certain times of the year longer 

than the nights in one hemisphere than in the other? 

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114 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

146. At what times of the year are tlie days and nights of 

equal length ? Why ? 

147. What three causes contribute to produce change of 

seasons ? 

148. Do degrees of latitude differ in length ? Why ? 

149. Define the terms latitude^ longitude, equator, diameter. 

150. Why are the Equator and Meridians called great cir- 

cles? 

151. Why was the circle around the North Pole called Arc- 

tic ? The South Pole, Antarctic ? 

152. What part of the earth's surface is included in each 

zone ? 

153. How are the cardinal points determined ? Are they 

absolute or relative ? 

154. If the earth were double the present diameter, what 

would be the weight of a man, now weighing 150 
pounds ? 

155. How would such an increase in the earth's size affect 

the industrial pursuits? Would it affect naviga- 
tion ? Why ? 

156. Suppose the earth were the size of the moon, or ^th 

its present volume, what are some of the changes 
that would result ? 

157. What is agriculture ? What commerce ? 

158. Can you tell why the word tropic is used in the con- 

nection it is? 

159. Upon what portion of the earth do the rays of the sun 

shine directly? 

160. Give the nebular hypothesis of the earth's formation. 

161. What is a map? What is meant by the term/r^><r//^/2 .? 

162. Give four facts from which the inference that the in- 

terior of the earth is heated may be drawn. 

163. What four classes of phenomena are ascribed to the 

heated interior ? 

164. What is a volcano ? Name the five volcanic districts 

of the world. 



GEOGRAPHY. 115 

165. To what two forces are volcanic ejections due ? 

166. What is the peculiarity in the distribution of volca- 

noes? How is this accounted for? 

167. Name four classes of phenomena analogous to volca- 

noes. 

168. What are the permanent effects of volcanoes? 

169. Why do the Pacific shores contain more volcanoes 

than the Atlantic shores ? 

170. Name the three noted volcanoes of the Mediterranean 

Sea. 

171. What six agencies are now producing changes in the 

earth's crust ? 

172. When and where are there no shadows cast by the sun ? 

173. Between what degrees of latitude and longitude does 

each of the grand divisions of the earth lie ? 

174. What is the latitude of Capes Good Hope and St. 

Roque ? Of Paris ? Of Boston ? Of Mexico ? 

175. From what place is longitude generally computed ? 

176. What is the greatest longitude a place can have ? 

177. What is the greatest latitude a place can have? 

178. Name the circles on which longitude is measured. 

179. What are the circles called on which latitude is meas- 

ured ? 

180. When the Equator is not represented on the map, how 

can you tell whether the latitude is north or south ? 

181. At what place does the sun never shine directly? 

182. Which is the highest active volcano in the world ? 

183. Bound North America ; South America ; Australia. 

184. Name the countries of Europe, of Asia, of Africa. 

185. What nation possesses the greatest number of islands ? 

186. Name the republics of Europe. How long have they 

been republics ? 

187. Name the ten largest rivers in the world, and give 

their respective lengths. 

188. Name and locate ten of the largest cities in the world, 

and give population of each. 



116 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

189. Into what two classes are the land areas of the earth 

divided? Describe each. 

190. Compare the Eastern Continents with the Western, 

with respect to length of coast line. 

191. What advantages arise to a country from a well-in- 

dented coast? 

192. Compare the continents of the Northern Hemisphere 

with those of the Southern, with respect to geo- 
graphic or mathematic zones. 

193. Name and describe the three classes of islands with 

respect to formation. Give an example of each 
class. 
19-1. How is the land surface of the earth divided with re- 
spect to its relief? 

195. Name the predominant mountain system of each con- 

tinent, and its culminating-point. 

196. What rivers drain the great low plain of North 

America ? 

197. Name the great low plains of Europe. 

198. What are geysers ? Name and locate the prominent 

geyser regions of the world. 

199. Are there places on the earth where the days and 

nights are of equal length throughout the year? If 
so, where, and why ? 

200. What parts of the earth's surface have four seasons ? 

What seasons have the other parts ? 

201. Under what conditions would the earth have but one 

season ? 

202. What is the direct cause of the succession of seasons ? 

203. If the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of 

its orbit were 50°, where would the Tropics and 
Polar Circles be located ? What would become of 
the Temperate Zone ? 

204. If the earth's axis were parallel to the plane of its or- 

bit, what would be the effect on day and night ? 
On the seasons ? 



GEOGRAPHY. 117 

205. In going from San Francisco to Japan, why do mari- 
ners go northward, instead of directly by the points 
of the compass ? 

20G. When it is 10 o'clock a. m. at Yokohama, what is the 
time at San Francisco, Yokohama being 140° E. 
longitude, and San Francisco 122° 30" W. longi- 
tude ? What is the time, also, at London ? 

207. Under what circumstances would those crossing the 

180th meridian have Sunday on two consecutive 
days ? Under what circumstances would Sunday 
be omitted ? 

208. What place on the earth has neither latitude nor lon- 

gitude, according to general reckoning ? 

209. What is a river ? A river valley ? A river basin ? A 

river system ? 

210. Upon what three things does the velocity of a river 

depend ? 

211. Upon what three things does the quantity of water 

discharged by a river depend ? 

212. Upon what does the course of a river depend ? 

213. What becomes of the eroded materials found in rivers ? 

214. Name the rivers of each continent having the most 

extensive delta formations. 

215. By what are the inundations of rivers caused ? Name 

some rivers that are periodically inundated. 
210. Account for the fact that some lakes are salt. Name 
three prominent salt lakes. 

217. In how many and what respects does ocean-water dif- 

fer from the water of rivers ? 

218. Account in detail for the saltness of the ocean. 

219. What advantages arise from its being salt ? 

220. Should a traveller start from Philadelphia (40° N. 

latitude), and follow the direction of the cardinal 
point east, how many miles would he travel in 
completing the circuit of the Globe ? Would he 
follow the parallel ? 



118 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

221. Washington and San Francisco are in about the same 

latitude ; would a railroad that follows the paral- 
lel that joins them be the shortest route ? 

222. Start at the Equator and go directly northeast ; what 

is the limit in that direction? How far? 

223. What is Mercator's Projection ? How can distances 

oblique to main points of the compass be meas- 
ured upon Mercator's map? 

224. What are Antoeci and Perioeci ? 

225. Why are some meridians longer than others at the 

level of the sea ? 
22(>. Is the earth's center ofgravity at its center of magnitude? 

227. Why do we see the sun longer each day from sunrise 

to sunset, than the time indicated by the almanac? 

228. Counting the days from the vernal equinox to the 

autumnal, shows they are seven or eight more in 
number than from the autumnal to the vernal ; or, 
the vertical rays of the sun are north of the Equa- 
tor that number of days more than south of it. 
How is it accounted for? 

229. What is the shape of the earth's shadow? What are 

its dimensions? Is the shadow of the same size 
throughout the year? 
2r>(l. During what phases of the moon can the moon and 
the sun be eclipsed ? 

231. How does the extent of coast line affect the civiliza- 

tion of a country? What other physical circum- 
stances affect civilization ? 

232. The centers of European civilization were found on 

the southern peninsulas. Why are these centers 
moving northward ? 

233. Classify the principal nations of the earth according 

to forms of government. 

234. Classify them according to forms of religion. 

235. Classify them according to extent of territory^ 
23(). Classify them according to number of population. 



GEOGRAPHY. 119 

237. Classify them according to extent of commerce. 

238. Classify them according to age. 

239. How many of the United States have compulsory 

educational laws ? 

240. How many of the United States have C-ounty Super- 

intendents for public schools ? 

241. (jive the method of measuring the earth's surface; 

give the square miles it contains. 

242. What parallels, ten degrees apart, include the greatest 

number of large cities in the United States? What 
ones in Europe? In Asia? 

243. Name some of the highest habitable places ; also some 

of the highest that have been reached by travelers. 

244. Into what grand divisions is the ocean divided ? 

Bound each. 

245. Describe an inland sea. Give example. 

246. Describe a border sea. Give example. 

247. Describe a gulf. Give example. 

248. To what three movements is the ocean subject? 

249. Describe each motion,, and explain fully how it is 

produced. 

250. Make drawings showing the relative positions of sun, 

moon, and earth at spring-tides. 

251. Why is neap-tide lower than spring-tide? Why is the 

tide later each day ? How much is it later ? 

252. What are constant currents? Explain in full how 

they are caused. 

253. What effect has the rotation of the earth upon them ? 

Explain how this is produced. 

254. Describe the constant current of the Atlantic, giving 

all its divisions. 

255. What are Sargasso Seas ? Name three uses of ocean 

currents. 

256. Which currents will aid, and which retard, the prog- 

ress of a vessel going from New York to Liver- 
pool ? From New York to Melbourne ? 



120 LIVE QUESTIONS, 

257. Locate the Grand Canal of China. What can you 

say of it ? 

258. Why was the Great Wall of China built? 

259. How high above the level of the sea is the highest lake ? 

260. What portion of Africa is called Barbary, and why so 

called ? 

261. Through what four islands does the Equator pass? 

262. Through what island does the Tropic of Cancer pass ? 

263. Are degrees of longitude of the same length ? 

264. What are the boundaries of the zones ? 

265. In what months does the dry season occur in the 

northern half of the Torrid Zone ? In the south- 
ern half? 

266. Which is the largest city of New England ? 

267. What are the principal sources of wealth in New Eng- 

land? 

268. For what is New Hampshire noted ? 

269. What productions of Africa form articles of commerce 

with the United States ? 

270. What caused the earth to be flattened at the poles? 

271. At what time are the days and nights of equal length 

all over the globe ? 

272. Name the principal railway lines in the United States, 

their beginning and ending. 
278. Name the principal seaport city of Brazil, of China', 
of England, of Japan. 

274. Show how a degree of latitude compares with a de- 

gree of longitude. 

275. Name the principal possessions of Great Britain in 

different parts of the world. 

276. Bound England, France, Spain, Russia. 

277. Mention the State that excels in the production of 

cotton ; one that excels in number of fine harbors. 

278. What is New Guinea sometimes called ? 

279. What can you say of New Guinea? Of New Hebri- 

des ? Of New Caledonia ? 



GEOGRAPHY. 121 

280. Name the principal groups of Malaysia. 

281. Name the four Sunda Isles. 

282. When and by whom was Cape Colony settled ? 

283. What classification would you make of the different 

nations, concerning their manner of living ? 

284. Name and locate the principal capes and bays of North 

America. 

285. Name the navigable streams that empty into the At- 

lantic. 

286. What is the outlet of Moosehead Lake ? 

287. Is there a climatic difference between the New Eng- 

land States and Pennsylvania? 

288. Would there be a change in the distribution of water 

on the surface of the globe should the rotary mo- 
tion of the earth cease ? 

289. What are the great natural divisions of the United 

States ? 

290. What meridian divides the Eastern from the Western 

Hemisphere ? 

291. Name some of the animals of the Torrid Zone. 

292. Why is there but little rain west of the Andes? 

293. In what part of the United States is there a highland, 

and why does it have less rain than the Mississippi 
Valley ? 

294. Name the animals peculiar to the Temperate Zone ; 

peculiar to the Torrid Zone. 

295. What country has the greatest railroad trade ? 

296. Does the United States possess the longest and most 

numerous lines of railroad ? Show this. 

297. Name four of the largest lakes of the world. 

298. Prove that climate affects the human race and vege- 

tation. 

299. What cities are noted for their elevation above the 

level of the sea? 
800. Would there be a different result should the Polar diam- 
eter become equal to the equatorial diameter ? Why ? 
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122 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

301. What recent discoveries did Stanley make in x\frica? 

302. What do we mean by the region of the Nile ? 

303. Are there any mountains in Ethiopia near the Equator? 

304. On which of the Polynesian Islands was Captain Cook 

killed ? 

305. What and where is Honolulu ? Give population. 

306. Give the uses of water ; of rivers ; of lakes. 

307. Give the component parts of the atmosphere, and the 

proportions. 

308. Explain the construction and the use of the ther- 

mometer ; of the barometer. 

309. Explain why the vertical rays of the sun have greater 

heating power than the oblique rays. 

310. In what three ways is the atmosphere heated? 

311. What are isothermal lines? Of what do they consti 

tute the boundaries? 

312. Why do the mathematical zones and the physical zones 

not coincide? 

313. Describe the trade-winds, giving in full their causes, 

limits, temperature, and uses. 

314. Explain in full the cause of land and sea breezes; of 

monsoons. 

315. What is meant by evaporation ? 

316. What is meant by condensation? 

317. What is meant by saturation ? 

318. What can you say of the surface of Asia? 

319. Locate the Isthmus of Kraw. 

320. When and by whom was Pitcairn's Island settled? 

321. On which island of Polynesia is its capital ? 

322. "V^Hiat can you say of the Sandwich Islands ? 

323. What two oases in Egypt ? What can you say of tliem ? 

324. Describe the principal volcano in Europe. 

325. Name the divisions belonging to Egypt. 

326. To what nation does Sierra Leone belong? 

327. When and why was the colony of Sierra Leone es- 

tablished ? 



GEOGRAPHY. 123 

328. When and why was the colony of Liberia established ? 

329. Name the Capitals of Asia. 

330. What do you mean by Asiatic Russia? 

331. Mention five European cities having a greater popu- 

lation than Philadelphia. 

332. What can you say of Gibralter, and to whom does it 

belong ? 

333. What can you say of the Great Canal in the south of 

France, and what waters does it connect? 

334. Is Iceland considered an European island ? 

335. Which is the larger, Europe or the United States? 

How many times larger ? 

336. In what zone is Borneo ? New Zealand ? New Found- 

land ? Niphon ? Greenland? Australia? 

337. W^hat is the general direction of the chief mountain 

chains in each of the continents? 

338. Name the zones in which you find the most highly 

civilized nations. Why ? 

339. Would the climate be materially changed if the earth's 

axis were horizontal to the plane of its orbit ? 

340. Has the inclination of the earth anything to do with 

the width of the several zones ? Why ? 

341. Name the States through which the meridian of Wash- 

ington passes. 

342. How is the subsidence of the ocean-bed proved ? 

343. How do you determine exact geographical position ? 

344. How do you render probable the original fluidity of 

the earth ? 

345. What causes the changes now^ occurring in the earth's 

crust ? 

346. Explain in full the origin of coal. 

347. Explain the origin of winds. 

348. Why is the Torrid Zone the hottest part of the earth ? 

349. Show how the principle of inertia applies to the earth's 

motion around the sun. 

350. Of what utility are latitude and longitude in geography ? 



124 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

351. Why can the value of latitude never exceed 90°, and 

longitude 180° ? 

352. What are equatorial and polar projections ? 

353. Distinguish between a sidereal year and tropical year. 
35-1. What is Laplace's nebular hypothesis? 

355. Distinguish between a mathematical zone and a phy- 

sical zone. 

356. Define the terms perihelion, aphelion, zodiac. 

357. Can you give evidence that the interior of the earth 

is still in a semi-molten condition ? 

358. What are the ejected materials of volcanoes ? 

359. Name the geographical elements of the globe. 

360. State the advantages the earth has over the other 

planets in the astronomical conditions. 

361. Show the relation of longitude to time. 

362. Distinguish between magnetic declination and mag- 

netic inclination. 

363. Distinguish between the formation of geysers and the 

formatio7i of artesian wells. 

364. State the average weight of increase of heat towards 

the interior of the earth. 

365. How are volcanic cones formed ? 

366. Has the shape of the earth been tested by circum- 

navigations ? 

367. What was the ancient belief as to the relative positions 

of the earth, sun, moon, and stars? 

368. Name all the aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere. 

369. What are fogs ? Explain the process of their forma- 

tion. 

370. What is the difference between fogs and clouds ? 

371. Account for the almost constant fogs in the region of 

Nova Scotia. 

372. Account for the rainless district of Gobi. Of the Sa- 

hara. 

373. Name the conditions necessary to the formation of 

dew. What change in conditions will cause frost ? 



G EOQRAPHY. 125 

374. What is climate ? Upon what two things is the cli- 

mate of any locality mainly dependent? What 
circumstances have a modifying effect upon these? 

375. Why has Sitka a warmer climate than Quebec ? Italy 

than New York ? Great Britain than Labrador ? 

376. Jixplain why the magnetic needle points to the north. 

Explain the cause of the dip of the needle. 

377. What is meant by the terms axis of rotation, fiorth 

pole, and south pole ? 

378. What do you mean by the earth's motion of revo- 

lution ? 

379. What is meant by the term atmosphere ? 

380. Name the materials that mainly compose the air. 

381. In what proportion does carbonic acid gas occur in 

the air ? 

382. State the ways we are made sensible of the presence 

of the air. 

383. Why is night so much colder than day? Why is 

summer warmer than winter ? 

384. Why are cloudy days in winter colder than cloudy 

days in summer? 

385. Can you tell what prevents excessive loss of heat at 

night by radiation ? 
380. Explain the nature and origin of trade-winds. 

387. Tell how water-vapors cause movements in the atmos- 

phere. 

388. What is the dew-point ? What is snow ? Hail ? 

389. What is zoological geography? What do we mean 

by fauna? 

390. Which has the wider range of distribution, man or 

animal ? 

391. Which possess the greater power of acclimation, man 

or the inferior animals? 

392. Define the term ethnography. 

393. Name the lines that generally form the boundaries of 

animal regions. 

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126 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

394. Why is the vegetation of the Tropical Zone so much 

more Uixuriant than that of the rest of the world ? 

395. Name the conditions necessary for plant growth. 
39G. Why does the distribution of heat and moisture form 

the basis for the distribution of animal life? 

397. Give the area of the United States. 

398. Name its great centres of population on the seaboard. 

On the great lakes. In the Mississippi Valley. 

399. Into what three regions do its mountain-systems di- 

vide the country ? 

400. In what zones do the United States lie ? 

401. Why has the western coast of the United States so 

much higher temperature than the eastern ? 

402. What is the Weather Bureau ? Why was it estab- 

lished ? 

403. W^hat valuable metals are found in the United States, 

and largely in what localities ? 

404. »What is the area of Alaska? What is its chief value 

to the United States? 

405. What is the principal cause of volcanic activity? 

406. What is the principal cause of earthquakes? 

407. What grand distinctions are observed in position and 

grouping of the land masses ? 

408. What are the three great terrestrial contrasts ? 

409. What appears to be the providential design concern- 

ing America ? 

410. State the function of the plant in the economy of na- 

ture. 

411. State the characteristic vegetation of each of the sev- 

eral zones. 

412. Why is Northern Africa so dry? 

413. Give the supposed cause of the auroras. 

414. On what does the height of the snow-line depend ? 

415. What causes the frequent storms of spring and autumn ? 

416. What causes a late spring or autumn ? An early 

spring or autumn ? 



GEOGRAPHY. 127 

417. Give the direction of the return-trades. What gives 

them this direction ? 

418. State the position and causes of equatorial cahns. 

419. What metals were most anciently used ? 

420. What are the three great families of the white race? 

421. W^hat climatic effects have marine currents? 

422. Explain the general circulation of the sea. 

423. Explain the formation of deltas. 

424. Describe and explain the general circulation of the 

atmosphere. 

425. Is there any comparative value in the Coral Islands? 

426. Name the principal warm currents of the ocean ; the 

cold currents. Which of these currents most 
powerfully affect the climate of different parts of 
the earth? 

427. Upon what circumstances does the rapidity of evapo- 

ration depend ? 

428. Describe the lake systems of the United States. • 

429. Name the cereals cultivated in the United States. 

430. Why are the eastern shores of tropical South America 

moist, and the western dry? 

431. Explain the cause of the mirage of the desert. 

432. Are the polar currents likely to bring rain or drought ? 

Why ? 

433. Which race occupies the highest grade in intellectual 

culture and social condition ? 

434. What is the general character of the Australian flora ? 

435. Mention the characteristics of the South American 

fauna. 

436. How are glaciers formed ? What are icebergs? 

437. Describe the geographical distribution of lakes. 

438. Give the origin and classification of valleys among 

mountains. 

439. What peoples are nomades ? Describe the savage life. 

440. What are the leading occupations of civilized life? 

441. What occupations give rise to cities? 



128 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

•442. What peculiarity have most of the large cities of the 
United States? 

443. How are the great cities of the earth classified ? 

444. To what nation does Algeria belong? 

445. Name the natural advantages of Switzerland. 
440. What causes the drought of the Sahara ? 

447. What mineral wealth has Egypt ? 

448. What are the four leading commercial emporiums of 

the United States? 

449. What European port receives the largest amount of 

American cotton and breadstuffs? 

450. What are the chief commercial ports on the Mediter- 

ranean ? 

451. Name the greatest commercial emporium of the world. 

452. What nations take the larger part of the silk? 

453. What is the American entrepot for Asiatic trade by 

steamers ? 

454. State the three main causes that contribute to deprive 

the Sahara of rains. 

455. In what direction does the surface slope in the larger 

part of Pennsylvania? 
45(). Bound the county you live in, and give its popula- 
tion. 

457. Bound your township ; your school district. 

458. Construct a map of Pennsylvania ; of Westmoreland 

County. 

459. Over how many degrees of latitude and o{ longitude 

does British India extend ? 
4{)0. Explain why a fibti of mist appears on a cold glass 
when brought into a warm room, 

461. How is the vapor of water brought into the air? 

462. Explain the origin of the fog often seen rising after 

sunset from the surface of a river. 

463. Explain the formation of clouds ; name the different 

kinds of clouds. 

464. What is ice, and when is it formed ? 



OEOQRAPHY. 129 

465. What is snow ? Describe a snow-flake. 

466. What are hail and sleet, and when formed ? 

467. What becomes of the part of the rain which falls into 

the sea? 

468. Why do boggy places occur in hilly ground ? 

469. Explain why springs issue from between beds of rock 

along the sides of valleys. 

470. Explain the origin of deep-seated springs. 

471. Do wells, mines, and pits, show the underground cir- 

culation of water? How? 

472. What is the difference between hard and soft water ? 
478. (rive the origin of underground tunnels and caverns. 

474. Does clear spring-water contain anything else than 

water ? 

475. What are the Pampas? Selvas? Llanos? Wastes 

of Patagonia? 

476. Locate the Sargasso Seas. What can you say of them ? 

477. Name ten of the longest rivers of the globe, and give 

their respective lengths. 

478. Give the area, in square miles, of each of the Grand 

Divisions. 

479. Give the population of each of the Grand Divisions. 

480. Compare the United States in size and population 

with each of the four largest countries of Europe, 
of Asia, and of Africa. 
48L Name and locate ten of the largest gulfs of the globe. 

482. Name and locate ten of the largest bays of the globe. 

483. Name and locate ten of the largest peninsulas of the 

globe. 

484. Name and locate ten of the largest islands of the globe. 

485. Name the republics and free states of the globe. 

486. Name and locate ten of the most prominent capes. 

487. What and where are the Bahama Islands, and to whom 

do they belong ? 

488. Locate the Bermuda Islands. To whom do they 

belong ? 



130 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

489. What suggested the name of Iceland? Who named 

Greenland ? 

490. What natural curiosities in Iceland ? 

491. Name and locate ten of the highest mountains. 

492. What can you say of Texas? Of Utah? Of Idaho? 

Of Montana? Of Dakota? Of California? 

493. Name and locate the principal peaks of the globe. 

494. What can you say of the Union Pacific Railroad ? 

495. W^hat is the cause of the slow progress of civilization 

in South America? 
49(1. What are the four great features of similarity between 

the Eastern and Western Continents? 
497. Where is the Great Barrier Reef? 
49,S. Which country contains the largest river-basin in the 

world ? 

499. Why are the waters of the Atlantic Ocean more salty 

than those of the Pacific ? 

500. Why is the course of rivers winding? What advan- 

tages derive from the windings of rivers? 

501. Through what does Lake Nicaragua discharge its 

waters ? 

502. State cause of New Foundland banks, and give reason 

of the almost perpetual fogs there. 

503. Why do icebergs move southward against the current 

of the gulf stream ? 

504. How many kinds of prairies are there? 

505. Where is the Plain of Toluca, and where are the 

Banks of Fucus ? 
50(i. How many classes of lakes are there? 

507. How high is the snowline on mountains under the 

equator ? 

508. Between what parallels does the range of man extend ? 
50!>. What gives the green color to plants? 

510. Where does the tidal wave begin? 

511. Why is the temperature of the ocean more uniform 

than that of the land ? 



GEOGRAPHY. 131 

512. Where is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean? 

518. What causes the phosphorescence of the ocean? 

514. For what is the Indian Ocean remarkable? 

515. What are Etesian winds? What periodical winds? 

516. What are the zones of perpetual winds? 

517. What are variable winds? Where do they occur? 

518. When does the atmosphere remain at rest? 

519. What would be the result, if the air were deprived 

of its oxygen ? 

520. Where does the gulf stream originate ? Give its cause. 

521. How does evaporation tend to produce ocean currents? 

522. What are the rainless regions of the New World? 

523. Why does a greater degree of heat prevail at the 

tropics than at the equator ? 

524. What determines the temperature of a country ? 

525. Where is the point of greatest cold ? 

526. What can you say of Lapland ? Locate it. 

527. What can you say of Russia, concerning her wealth, 

her government, her religion, her productions ? 

528. For what is Niznei Novgorod famous ? 

529. What can you say of the Republic of Andorra ? 

530. What can you say of the Dead Sea ? Of Aral ? 

531. Explain how soil is continually renewed. 

532. Show how plants lend their help in the making of 

soil. 

533. Wliat is meant by the chemical action of rain ? 

534. In what sense may it be said that the general surface 

of the land is continually moving towards the sea ? 

535. Why do streams flow? What are pot-holes? 

536. Why are some rivers, such as the Rhine, most swollen 

in summer ? 

537. Describe the bed of a river when the water is low. 

538. Why does snow remain perpetual above the snow- 

line ? 

539. What becomes of a glacier as it descends its valley ? 

540. What are moraines ? 



132 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

541. How do stones and earth get under the ice of a glacier ? 

542. What use does the glacier make of these stones and 

particles of earth and sand ? 

543. On which side of the equator does the most land lie ? 

544. What is the relative saltness of the Atlantic Ocean 

and the Dead Sea? 

545. Whence has the mineral matter in sea-water come? 

546. What happens when a drop of sea- water is evaporated 

on a piece of glass ? 

547. What is the commonest and most obvious form of 

motion in the sea? 

548. What is surface-drift, and how is it often indicated ? 

549. How may a basin or trough of water be made to illus- 

trate the formation of waves ? 

550. How do the waves wear down a rocky coast? 

551. What is the general character of the sea-floor, as com- 

pared with the surface of the land ? 

552. How is our information concerning the bottom of the 

deep sea obtained ? 

553. What was found to be the average depth of the At- 

lantic Ocean, when soundings were made for the 
telegraphic cable between Britain and America? 

554. What is the greatest depth that has yet been observed 

in the Atlantic, and where does it occur ? 

555. What is a di^edge, and what use is made of it? 

556. To what part of the sea is the destructive action of 

the waves limited ? 

557. How are the mud, earth, sand, and gravel disposed 

of, which the sea obtains from the crumbling sur- 
face of the land ? 

558. What light has been obtained by means of the dredge, 

regarding the living things of the deep sea bottom? 

559. What are shell-banks ? How formed ? 

560. What is the length of the line that reaches from the 

top of the highest mountain to the bottom of the 
deepest mine ? 



GEOGRAPHY. 133 

561. What has been the history of Vesuvius? 

562. Mention any facts which show that different parts of 

the earth's surface are slowly changing their level. 
568. In what way does the action of the earth's internal 
heat tend to counteract the general lowering of the 
level caused by the destructive action of air, rain, 
frosts, rivers, glaciers, and the sea? 

564. Under what circumstances were the rocks of most of 

our hills and valleys formed ? 

565. What are dikes ? How are they formed ? 

566. Name the kinds of earthquake motion. Which is 

most dangerous ? 

567. What is tufa? How is it formed ? 

568. Name the principal volcanic mountains of North 

America. 

569. What is a mountain-knot ? Give an example. 

570. Define Azoic period. Palaeozoic period, Mesozoic 

period, and Cenozoic period. 

571. State Darwin's theory for the presence of a lagoon 

within the reef. 

572. In what different ways were plains formed ? 

573. What do you understand by lines of trend ? 

574. In which line of trend do the mountainous elevations 

of Asia extend ? 

575. Name the classes of rocks according to their condition. 

576. Name the classes of rocks according to their origin. 

577. Name the classes of rocks according to the presence 

or absence of fossils. 

578. Name the systems of inland drainage of the world. 

579. Locate the three largest geyser regions of the world. 

580. Describe travertine. How is it formed ? 

581. What is the difference between an estuary and a delta ? 

582. State the opinion of the origin of petroleum. 

583. Does the drainage of North America resemble that of 

South America ? 

584. Name the lakes that are salt. Why salt ? 

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134 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

585. What Grand Division has the most extended system 

of inland drainage ? 

586. What three distinct forms does the articulation of land 

and water assume ? 

587. Locate the Telegraphic plateau. Describe it. 

588. Why is the Mediterranean Sea salter than the Baltic ? 

589. What are whirlpools ? Bores? Races? 

590. How much heavier is salt water than fresh water ? 

591. Who was the author of the first geography? 

592. Why does the tidal wave progress from east to west ? 

593. Upon what does the height and velocity of a wave 

depend ? 

594. Why does the moon exert a greater influence in pro- 

ducing tides than the sun ? 

595. Explain the different kinds of tides. 

596. Explain the nature of the influence which the tidal 

wave exerts on the rotation of the earth. 

597. Name the different kinds of currents, and tell their 

effects. 

598. Does the Gulf Stream exert an influence on climate ? 

Show this. 

599. Which currents would aid and which would retard 

the progress of a ship in sailing from America to 
Europe ? From America to Australia ? From New- 
York to San Francisco ? 

600. Trace the progress of the Gulf Stream.* 

601. Explain the origin of constant currents. 

602. Why do the mathematical and physical zones not coin- 

cide ? 

603. What is a %^/.? h fiord? K sound ? 

604. Define the terms sound, belt, lagoon. 

605. What is a tarn? A loch? A road? 

606. What cold winds blow over Texas? 

607. What is the mean annual temperature of Philadelphia? 

Of London? Of Mexico? Of Melbourne? 

608. Describe the northeasters, and locate them. 



GEOGRAPHY. 135 

609. What is meteorology ? Hypsometry? 

610. Name the principal wind zones of the earth. 

611. Explain the formation of water-spouts. 
612.. What winds does the Great Desert cause? 

613. What winds are caused by the deserts of Arabia and 

Nubia ? 

614. To what do clouds owe their variety of forms? 

615. Describe a rain-gauge. 

616. What do you mean by dew-point? 

617. What do you mean by St. Elmo's fire? 

618. Name and define the kinds of lightning. 

619. What is a mirage ? Give its cause. 

620. Distinguish between tsogo?ial dind isoclinal lines. 

621. What is evaporation ? Upon what does it depend? 

622. What is the average rainfall in the United States? 

623. Name the mountains that contain glaciers. 
621. Name the periodical rain zones. 

625. When does it rain in the zone of calms? 
626; When does it rain in the zone of trade-winds? In 
the sub-tropical wind zones? 

627. How many grains of vapor will one cubic foot of air 

hold? 

628. Locate the rainless district of the Eastern Continent ; 

of the Western Continent. 

629. What is the cause of the absence of rain in the above 

districts ? 

630. Explain the phenomena of the rainbow. 

631. What produces the sunset tints of the sky ? 

632. What produces the blue color of the sky ? 

633. What is believed to be the cause of the earth's mag- 

netism ? 

634. What do you mean by the phenomenon of loofning ? 

635. What is the difference between plant geography and 

botany ? 

636. Name the plants which furnish valuable material for 

clothing. 



136 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

C37. From what tree is quinine obtained ? 

638. Where do we obtain ebony ? Mahogany? Cotton? 

Coffee ? 

639. Describe the steppes. How are they produced ? 

640. Name the food plants of the tropical regions. 
6-4:1. Name the principal cereals. 

642. Name the principal narcotics. 

643. Name the principal spices. 

644. What are deciduous trees ? Name them. 

645. What is the true basis for the distribution of plant 

life? 

646. From what tree is chocolate prepared ? 

647. What is the difference between the horizontal and 

the vertical distribution of animals? 

648. Name the tropical fauna, the temperate fauna, the 

Arctic fauna. 

649. Name the chief Celtic nations. 

650. Name the Slavonic nations, the branches of the Cau- 

casian race. 

651. What can you say of Alaska? Name the principal 

river and town. 

652. Describe the Weather Bureau. When established ? 

653. What is the duty of the Weather Bureau ? 

654. Name and locate the places where valuable metals are 

found in the United States. 

655. Name the principal metals. Name the principal agri- 

cultural productions. 

656. What is the ecliptic in geography ? 

657. Explain the succession of seasons in full. 

658. What proofs go to show of the probable unity of the 

human race? 

659. What is the general direction of the equatorial cur- 

rents ? Why ? 

660. Give an account of the earthquake at Lisbon, in 

1755. 

661. What is the cause of tornadoes? Of earthquakes? 



GEOORAPHV. 137 

662. Why are the Andes of northern Chili dry on both 

slopes, and those of Columbia and Ecuador wet 
on both? 

663. Why are the high western plains and plateaus so dry ? 

664. What has been the historic function of Asia, and how 

was it adapted for this work ? 

665. What has been the function of Europe, and how was 

it fitted for this work? 
Q&Q. Explain the formation of intermittent springs. 

667. What would be the result if the earth's axis were per- 

pendicular to the plane of the orbit ? 

668. What would be the result if it were inclined more 

than twenty-three and a half degrees? 

669. What people adhere to the Brahmanic mythology? 

670. Where does Buddhism prevail? 

671. What are the leading occupations of civilized life? 

672. What is the effect of sea-winds? 

673. What do we mean by the primary races? By sec- 

ondary races ? 

674. Describe the forests of the temperate zones. 

675. How are mankind classified on the basis of their mode 

of life ? 

676. Distinguish between a commercial city and a manu- 

facturing city. 

677. Of what formation are the Feejee Islands? 

678. What are the exports of the Sahara? 

679. What is the surface of the Sunda Islands? 

680. What is the religion of the mass of the people of 

China? 

681. Where and what are the Tundras? 

682. Where is the cultivable lands of Siberia? 

683. When was the principality of. Roumania created ? 

How? 

684. What can you say of the principality of Servia? 

685. What can you say of Mount Cenis railway tunnel? 

686. What forms the kingdom of Italy ? 

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138 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

687. What can you say of Athens? 

688. Describe the government of the Free Cities. 

689. What State is first in mining and the reduction of ores? 
(190. What can you say of the surface of Pennsylvania? 
691, How is Mexico divided in regard to climate? 

69:^. Name and describe the most populous city in Oregon. 

693. What city of Great Britain is especially distinguished 

for the manufactory? 

694. Whence does the Nile derive its waters? 

695. Explain the constant parallelism of the axis. 

696. For what is Mecca noted ? 

697. What can you say of the province of Georgia, and 

for what are the people particularly noted ? 

698. Name the peninsulas which comprise India. 

699. What are the cardinal points of the horizon ? 

790. Distinguish between <r^';//;'//"//!^^^z/ and centripetal ioxo.Q.'^. 

701. Distinguish between oi'thograpJiic and ste7'eograpJiic 

projection. 

702. Why are the circles placed just where they are ? 

703. What do you mean by \\-\^ t^t-e at circle of ilhimination? 




CHAPTER VI. 



Grammar. 



Principles. 



9. 
10. 

11. 
12. 

13. 

14. 



Language, in the primitive sense of the term, embraced 

what ? 
How is grammar properly taught ? 
What does the term language now signify, and what is 

its derivation ? 
Give, in your opinion, the best definition of grammar. 
What do we mean by the origin of language ? 
Of the nine parts of speech, which do you think were 

the beginnings of speech ? 
Which was the first invented, the noun or the verb ? 
What do you mean by the spofitaneous origin of lan- 
guage ? 
Of how many primary kinds is language? 
Which was the first writing in alphabetical characters 

ever exhibited to the world ? 
What do we mean by the power of language ? 
How can we best gain a practical knowledge of the 

changes which our language has undergone ? 
Where do we get the term grammar, and what does it 

mean ? 
State the three opinions which have prevailed in respect 

to the origin of the diversities of language. 

i 139) 



140 LIVE QUESTIONS, 

15. To what century can we date the formation of our lan- 

guage ? 

16. What reasons can you give for the study of the Eng- 

lish language? 

17. Mention the several periods of the English language 

in course of development. 

18. In whose reign was modern English introduced ? 

19. Who wrote the first English grammar? 

20. The printing of English books began in what cen- 

tury? 

21. Give some changes and specimens of the English lan- 

guage. 

22. In what way or ways has the English language been 

somewhat injured? 

23. What is a dialect, and what can you say of the origin 

of the English dialects? 
24:. Mention the causes of existing dialectical diversities in 
the United States. 

25. What are Americanisms? Classify them. 

26. What is speech, and what are parts of speech ? 

27. Define etymology, classification, and inflection. 

28. Define modification, derivation, and parsing. 

29. What is praxis, and what does the word mean ? 

30. What do we mean by classification of words? 

31. Define each part of speech. 

32. Why is an used before vowel sounds ? 

Synthesis. 

33. Write a sentence containing a word which has an im- 

proper diphthong and a word which has a proper 
diphthong. 

34. Write in a sentence a word having two liquids and 

mark the word. 

35. Write a simple interrogative sentence containing all the 

parts of speech. 

36. Write a sentence having a concessive clause. 



GRAMMAR. 141 

37. Write a complex sentence containing an objective clause 

element. 
88. Write a sentence containing an adjective clause element. 

39. Write a dependent clause denoting purpose. 

40. Write a sentence containing a participial predictate 

adjective. 

41. Write a sentence containing a compound subject, one 

containing a compound object, one containing a 
compound predicate. 

42. Write the possessive singular and plural of princess. 

43. Write a sentence containing causal clauses^ 

44. Write a sentence containing copulative clauses. 

45. Write a sentence containing an adverbial phrase com- 

plement. 
4(). Write a sentence containing the adjective wise. 

47. Re-write the sentence, expanding the adjective wise into 

an equivalent clause-modifier of the subject. 

48. Illustrate in a simple sentence the use of had as auxiliary. 
^49. Write a sentence having had as principal verb. 

Analysis. 

Analyze the foUoiving examples ami parse tJie italicized ivords. 

50. It was in vain that he wrote and that we kept reading. 

51. The sun was seen to set. 

52. His daughter seeins amiable and looked up to by father 

and mother. 

53. So Heaven decrees ; with Heaven who can contest ? 

54. Lives thei-e wdio loves his pain ? 

55. The bankrupt firm has resumed business, though reduced 

somewhat /;/ extent. 

56. The one devising liberal things shall prosper. 

57. Hearing a rap at the door, I opened it. 

58. The boy came back, having his arm in a sling. 

59. I do entreat that we may sup together. 
(10. I was not aware of his being a soldier. 



142 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

()1. You would be taught your duty, 

62. It is acting the evil which is being accomplished within 

him. 

63. Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, 
Will never mark the marble with his name. 

64. What'' s a tall man unless he fight ? 

65. That is strange, considering he is your next neighbor. 
^\^\. No wonder you are deaf to all I say. 

67. _Still \\\Q wonder grew 

TJiat one small head could carry all he knew. 

False Syntax. 

68. Whom do you suppose that I am ? 

69. Who do you suppose the guilty person to be? 

70. These sort of shallow tricks are soon discovered. 

71. I simply read the extract to show that my ipse dixit need 

not be taken. 

72. Who would not say, "If it be me'' rather than, ''If 

it be /." 

73. These are her garb, not her ; they but express 

Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress. — 
H. More. 

74. Whom do they say it is? — Fowler E. Gram. 

75. King Harrold, wounded with an arrow in the eye, was 

nearly blind. — Dickens. 

76. There is not a girl in town, but, let her have her will 

in going to a mask, and she shall dress like a shep- 
herdess. — Addison. 

77. I am not recommending these kind of sufferings to 

your liking. 

78. We have strict statutes, and most biting laws. 
Which for these nineteen years we have let sleep. — 

Shak. 
70. They could not speak ; and so I left them both. 

To bear this tidings to the bloody king. — Richard III., 



GRAMMAR. 143 

80. So many spots, like iiiiives on Venus' soil, 
One jewel set off with so many foil. — Dry den. 

81. The verses consist of two sort of rhymes. 

Principles. 

82. Can articles ever be used when we mean to speak of 

a whole species ? 

83. When does a common noun not admit an article ? 

84. How does an or a commonly limit the sense? 

85. How does the commonly limit the sense ? 

86. Why is afi or a not applicable to plurals ? 

87. Are an and a different articles, or the same? 

88. What is the effect of putting one article for the other, 

and how shall we know which to choose? 

89. What modifications have articles? 

90. What particular classes are included among common 

nouns ? 

91. What is the basis of the classification of the parts of 

speech ? 

92. What is the basis of a sentence ? 

93. What is the difference between a noun and a substan- 

tive? 

94. How can the other parts of speech be made nouns ? 

95. What is a collective noun ? What an abstract 

noun ? 
9(3. How is the regular plural formed when the word gains 
a syllable? 

97. On what are the different genders found, and to what 

parts of speech do they belong ? 

98. When do proper nouns become common nouns ? 

99. When do common nouns become proper nouns ? 

Give examples. 

100. What is gender? Distinguish between gender and 

sex. 

101. Define the terms person, number, gender, and give 

derivation of each. 



144 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

102. What ])rin(i[)lc of universal grammar determines the 

gender, when both sexes are taken together ? 

103. In how many ways are the sexes distinguished in 

gi-ammar ? 

104. Under what circumstances is it common to disregard 

the distinction of sex? 

105. What words are used only in the feminine gender? 

What in the masculine ? 

lOG. Show that English gender is philosophic. 

1()7. What are the grounds for a choice of gender in per- 
sonification ? 

108. In the following example give the gender of the words 
in italics, " 1 don't know what a 7c>//c-/i is, or what 
// was then." 

101). Which gender is considered the most worthy? 

110. In the following example give the gender of the words 

in italics, *'F]ach sex, dressing themselves in the 
clothes of the of/ier.'" 

111. Ciive the feminine of r//, of rake, of mi Iter. 

112. (live the masculine of sakcrhawk, of tzarina, of 

goody. 

Synthesis. 

113. Write a sentence having an adverbial clause of con- 

dition and concession. 

114. Write a sentence having an adverbial clause of result 

or effect. 
11"). Write a sentence containing a substantive clause. 
1 H>. Write a sentence in which the preposition /6'/- has no 

antecedent term of relation. 

117. Write a sentence wherein a prepositional phrase is 

modified by an adverb. 

118. Build a sentence in which a substantive phrase is 

modified by an adjective. 

119. Construct a sentence having an imi)erative and an 

interrogative clause. 



GRAMMAR. 145 

12(1. Make a list of ten simple and five compound prepo- 
sitions. 

\'1\. Mention six words commonly used as interjections. 

\'1'1. Build a sentence in which two adjectives are used sub- 
stantively. 

i'Z'.). Construct a sentence in which the substantive clause 
is the object of a verb. 

\'1\. Write a sentence in which the substantive clause is 
used as predicate noun. 

125. Write a sentence containing a nominative absolute 
before a participle. 

12(j. Write a sentence having a nominative absolute after a 

participle. 

Analysis. 

127. We are quite sorry it is so. 

128. There is no need that s\iq ha present. 

129. Forgive as we forgive our enemies. 

180. The cause of anxiety was, why he did not write. 
K>1. Where there is no law, there is no transgression. 
182. In attempting to rescue his friend he forgot to care 

for himself. 
1 88. I have shown_y^?/ little more than the outline of this scene. 

184. We thought it strange for him to deceive us. 

135. vSatan is with great art described as owning h'-i)^ adver- 
sary to be Almighty. 

186. The man has many houses to let on Pine street. 

187. Some books are to be tasted^ others to be swallowed, 

and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, 
some books are to be read only in parts ; others to 
be read, but not curiously ; and some few are to be 
read 7vholly, and with diligence and attention. 

185. ' Tis almost morning ; I would have thee gone, 

And yet r\o further than a wanton's bird ; 
Who lets // hop a little from her hand, 
And with a silk thread plucks it back again. 
So loving-jealous of its liberty. 

13 



14(j LIVE QUESTIONS. 

loO. J ivould 1 were (hat bird. 

1-1(1. Sweet, so would 1. 

111. John said that James said that Ilrnry sells dear. 

\V1. My wife and 1 fell out and v^t/ell out — my wile and I. 

141). Every now and then he would yell furiously. 

144. But a few men were out hunting yesterday. 

1 If). All 1 have to say ''icdiat are you at'out.'" 

1 MI. 4'hey are alike and they jjlease alike. 

1 17. .///heart they live, <?// head, all eye, all ear. 

lis. The boy stu(iies alone and he alone studies. 

MI>. The winter, and also the spring has its pleasures. 

150. Sue h characters are ea lied figures ; as, i, 2, .'>, I, etc. 

151. We find fault to his apjjointment ^/j" secretary. 

152. lie fell asleep as 1 found \\ illiani asleep. 

15.'). 1 )() your hest, he /^<"^Vcan tell the tones he loved the lest. 

151. He is to blame for all this shameful conduct. 

155. Man hut for this were active to no end. 

15(5. "Oh, blindness to the future; V\\\A\s given, 

That each may fill the cir( le marked by Heaven, 

Who sees with ecpial eye, as (iod (^'i all, 

A hero perish, or a sj)arrovv fall. 

Atoms or systems into ruin hurf d, 

And now a bubble bu/st and now a world." 

157. More than a hundred children's children rode on his 

knee. 

False Syntax. 

158. He that was dead sat uj) and began to s])eak. 
151). I intended last year to have visited you. 

l(!(l. His reputation and his estate were both lost by gam- 
bling and dissipation. 

1(11. 4'he cares of this life or the deceit fulness of riches 
have clioked the seeds in man\' a promising mind. 

l()!i. Verse and prose on some occasions run into one 
another like light and shade. — Blai?-\^ Rhet. 

IGo. Tor mankind have always been butchering each other. 



GRAMMAR. 147 

104. But I wish to distinguish the three high ones from 

each other also. — Fowle' s True Eng. G?'a?n. 

1(15. Those girls to which I referred come here. 

]0(J. He has been left no less than £8000. 

1()7. I do not know who 1 shall get. 

108. All the metals are less useful than iron. 

109. 'I'his trade enriched some people more than it enriched 

them. — Murray's Gram. 

170. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, 

because he was the son of his old age. — Gen. 

171. Of all other simpletons, he was the greatest. — Nut- 

ting's Eng. Idioms. 

172. Man is capable ©f being the most sociable of any 

animal. 
178. Because I think him best informed of any naturalist 
who has ever written. — -Jefferson' s Notes. 

174. I'll learn you how to behave yourself. 

175. If you cannot do that much, you can be of no use to 

me. 
170. The name of a Roman was once a synonym for great- 
ness. 

177. The river raised very rapid. 

178. The boy took suddenly ill, and feels very bad yet. 
17!). How more are ye better than the fowls. — Luke. 

180. And to instruct their pupils in the most thorough and 

best manner. 

181. Or, as a moat defensive to a house, 

Against the envy of less happier lands. — Shak. 

182. The Anglo-Saxon language possessed, for the two first 

persons, a dual number. — Fowler' s Eng. Gram. 

183. It is a remarkable good likeness. 

184. Do you feel as bad as you look? 

185. He said he felt very badly. 

18(;. Words not reducible to either of the three preceding 

heads. — Eowler's Eng. Gram. 
187. Here are ten oranges ; take either of them. 



im LIVF. QUESTIONS. 

]<S8. 'J\) such as tliink the nature of it deserving their at- 

ten t i on . — Butler' s Analogy. 
IS!). Wanted — A mule for an old gentleman, weighing (100 

11)., with his collar on. 

PrMnclples. 

r.K). Wiuit is the inflec-tion of adjectives called ? 

1!M. (iive example of regular inllec tion ; of irregular inflec- 
tion. 

V.Vl. What are cardinals? Ordinals? Multiplicatives? 

\\y,\. Define the term pronoun, and name the different 
classes. 

104. liow is the })r()n()un // often uned ? 

105. In this sentence, " Surely the Lord is in this place, 

and I knew // not," what does // re|)resent? And 

how i)arse(l ? 
100. Parse in 'full the italicized words in the following: 

'■''Moah is spoiled, and gone up out of ho- (ities, 

and Ids chosen young men are gone down to the 

slaughter? " 
1!I7. 10x[)lain why we say, "Our Father which art in 

heaven." " Pray for them Te^/z/V/! desi)itely use you." 
lOS. is it correct to say, ''Herod, which is hut another 

name for cruelty ? " 
1!>0. How are the comi)ound relatives formed? 
-(M). Mention the several ways in which wJiich is used, in 

which 7v]iat is used, and in which tJiaf is used. 
-01. Which of the relatives are indeclinable? 
20:^. What is a verb? What an intransitive verb? What 

a transitive verb? What a verb in the passive 

voice? 
20:>. Give the classification of verbs according to their 

nature; according to their form. 
!i04. Do intransitive verbs ever become transitive, and vice 

versa? If so, when? (iive examples. 
205. What attributes have intransitive verbs? 



GRAMMAR. 149 

2(1(1. What properties belong only to fniite verbs? 

1^07. Why are verlfs called by that name ? 

'20H. What is an active-transitive verb ? 

2(MI. What is an active-intransitive verb? 

210. What are moods in grammar? 

211 . How many moods are there, and what are they called ? 

212. Define each mood, and define the terms infinitive, 

potential, imperative, etc. 

218. What are tenses in grammar? 

214. How many tenses are there, and what are they called ? 

215. Which are the absolute, and which the relative tenses? 
21G. Define the terms absolute and relative as applied to 

tense. 
217. Define a redundant verb, a defective verb, a regular 

verb, an irregular verb, a copulative verb. 
21S. What is conjugation ? Define the term conjugation. 

219. Distinguish between an auxiliary verb and an imper- 

sonal verb. 

220. How is a verb conjugated negatively ? 

221. What do we mean by the principal parts of a verb? 

222. lo what style is the inflecting oi shall, zvill, may, can, 

should, would, 7ni^i:;ht, and could now restricted ? 
22l>. What is the synopsis of a verb? 

224. Give the principal parts of abide, belay, betide, 

seethe, reave, rive, work, mulct, lade, slit, lie, lay. 

225. How many redundant verbs are there? 

22(). Distinguish between the infinitive and the participle. 

227. How many kinds of participles are there, and what 
are they called ? 

22S. State how the participles are formed, and give exam- 
ples of each. 

229. What are the participles of the following verbs, accord- 

ing to the simplest form of conjugation : Set, 
know, appear. 

230. What are the signs of the tenses ? Give examples. 

281. Why are infinitives and participles not finite? 

];5* 



150 LIVIi: QUESTIONS. 

232. Have participles voice? Can you exemplify this? 

283. Give examples of compoimd participles. 

234. Give examples of composite forms of a verb. 

235. Parse the italicized in the following : He named Jiim- 

s elf Dick, and he named Dick Jolui. 

236. Give all the properties to the italicized words in the 

following : They named him Henry, and he was 
named Henry. 

237. How do you distinguish the verbal adjective from the 

true participle? 

238. How are adjectives formed from verbs? 
239 
240 
241 
242 
243 
244 



How are adjectives formed from adjectives? 

How are adjectives derived from nouns? 

Why do abstract nouns have no plural? 

How is the word news parsed concerning number? 

Did the form new (tidings) ever exist? 

What can you say of the words means, tidings, siim- 
7nons, nuptial, thank, wage, optics, physics, and 
mathematics, with regard to number? 
245, Name some of the ways how verbs are derived from 

nouns. 
24G. Name some words made up of nouns and verbs, of 
nouns and adjectives, of nouns and nouns, of nouns 
and adverbs, of nouns 2iYi(S. preposifioiis, of verb and 
verb. 

247. What are infinitives and participles? 

248. Parse the italicized words in the following: "T am 

singing, and I ajn singing a song. ' ' 

249. What is the sign of the infinitive, and when omitted? 

250. Parse the word idle in the following: "They did 

nothing but idle about." 

251. Is the infinitive ever the object of a preposition ? 

Synthesis. 

252. Build a sentence having an infinitive object of a prep- 

osition. 



GRAMMAR. 151 

253. Write a sentence containing flian as a preposition. 
25-I-. Write a complex sentence having two adverbial clauses 
of time. 

255. Write a sentence having a noun in apposition with a 

preposition. 

256. Write a sentence, the pronoun tliemselves in the nomi- 

native case. 

257. Write a sentence having what as an adverb. 

25.S. Build a sentence having for its attribute an adverbial 
phrase. 

259. Build a sentence having for its attribute a phrase. 

260. Name i\it predicate in the following: ''There is a 

pleasure in being alone after the excitement of 
much society." 

261. In the sentence, "It is singular that you should make 

that mistake," how is the subject modified ? 

262. Parse the italicized words in the following: "He ran 

so fast that I could not overtake him. " " He spoke 
loud that I might hear him." 
268. Write a sentence using when as a noun. 

264. Write a sentence having would as principal verb. 

265. Write a sentence using worse as a noun. 

266. In the sentence, " I told him that we should be there," 

to what does the adjunct him belong ? 

Analysis. 

267. I am the man who commands. 

268. More worth to men, more joyous to themselves. 

269. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled, 
And still where many a garden flower grows wild, 
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose 
The village preacher's modest mansion rose. 

270. There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a 

virtue. 

271. Loveliest of lovely things are they, on earth, that 

soonest pass away. 



152 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

272. What in me is dark, 

Illumine ; what is low, raise and support. 

273. In the day t/ia/ thou eatest thereof thou shalt die. 

274. I know a bank whereon the wild thyme grows. 

275. The Son of man had not a place where to lay his 

head. 

276. While on this part of the subject, I may remark. 

277. ''Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, 

In rayless majesty, now stretches forth 
Her leaden, o'er a slumbering world." 

278. Having first procured guides, we began our ascent of 

the mountain. 

279. The sea is as deep as the mountains are high. 

280. Go 7vhere we may, we find traces of sin. 

281. Seest thou yon dreary \A':vl\-\, forlorn and wild, 
The, seat of desolation, void oi light. 

Save where the glimmering of these livid flames 
Casts /c7/(? and dreadful. 

282. It is here that he saw me. 

283. It is true that he saw me. 

281. £10,000 worth of sugar were destroyed in one sugar- 
house. 

285. Somehow or other, he is alwaysyfrj-/. 

286. Every noic and then we heard the cannon l?oofn. 

287. La Fayette 7vas made inuch of by everybody. 

288. We took \X. for granted XhdX you had started. 

289. Maicgre all you can say, I am resolved not to go. 

290. I took the cars for Buffalo, via Dunkirk, but on arriv- 

ing there found myself minus my purse. 

291 . " Here lies what once was Matthew Prior ; 
The son of Adam and Eve. 

Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?''^ 

292. ''Think for thyself one good idea, 
But known to be thine own. 

Is better than a thousand gleaned 
From fields by others sown." 



GRAMMAR. 153 

False Syntax. 

293. How many spoonsful make two cupsful? 

294. It is a general time of plenty, and crops are excellent. 

295. Hoist me down in the coal-mine. 

296. The foreigner could neither read nor write. 

297. Scotland and thee did each in other live. — Dryden. 

298. You had l)est not anger me, if you would go in peace. 
2!)9. The doctor, in his lecture, said that fever always pro- 
duced thirst. 

300. Prompted by the most extreme vanity, he persisted in 

writing bad verses. 
801. What can be the cause of the parliament neglecting 

so important a business ? 

302. Man never is, but always to be blest. 

303. Either you or I are in the wrong. 

304. On either side of the river was there the tree of life. 

305. I will be obliged to go home to-morrow. 

30(1. I cannot help thinking of those bad news you brought. 

307. Nothing is more preferable to a good character. 

30<S. There are few that live as holy as they ought. 

309. " If that is the only difficulty," says I to myself, we 

shall soon succeed. 

310. The chief wealth of the Laplanders are reindeer. 

311. See that thou forgettest not thy friends. 

312. He would sit and read for hours, and then meditate 

much on what he read. 

313. What did you hit him for? 

314. I did not think of its being him. 

315. He acts differently from what he did. 

31(). Trust not him, whom you know is dishonest. 

317. That custom has been formerly quite popular. 

318. I should say that it was an hour's ride. 

319. I have often said, " I wisli I was in Dixie." 

320. The experiment proved that air had weight. 

321. If you will call, I shall be happy to accompany you. 



1 54 T.I VK QUESTIONS. 

822. W'lien will wc get through this tedious controversy? 
828. 'i'he pyramids o\' F^gy])! has stood more than three 
thousand years. 

824. 4'here are many more shining cjualities in the mind 

of man, but tliere are none so useful as discretion. 

825. Fame, you know, to be a dream ; wilt thou then 

barter thy soul for it ? 
82(5. P\)()ls may your sc(jrn, but not thy envy raise. 
827. T.et falsehood be a stranger to your lii)s, a stranger to 

thy lips. 
82S. Plenty irii)s along, scattering its fruits as it goes. 
821>. i'A'ery gentleman and laily should remember that they 

are responsible for the example they set to the 

world. 
880. llere is an opportunity for you and 1 to distinguish 

ourselves. 

Principles. 

8.81. I'A'plain in what way certain verb-forms not derived 

l)y inllection, are made up. 
882. What is an adverb? Give the etymology of the term. 
888. Classify adverbs, (live examples of each class. 

884. What is a conjunctive adverb. Give an example. 

885. Explain ///r in '* the more the merrier." 

88(1. How do you parse " //lus far'" in "thus far is right." 
887. ** J'light ai^ainsf the eastern gate 

Where the great sun begins his state." Parse the 

italicized words. 
338. What can you say of tmicli, little, far, all, too, how, 

thus? etc. 
881). Vwx^st plainly in "Homer plainly an orator." 

840. Parse even in "Behold J, even 1, do bring a flood of 

waters." 

841. Di) adverbs ever bear s})Ccial relation to nouns or 

l)r() nouns ? 

842. Parse up, up, in "Up, up, (llentarkin ! rouse thee, ho.^' 



GRAMMAR. 155 

343. Parse unfortunately in " Unfortunately for the lovers 

of antiquity, no remains of Grecian paintings have 
been preserved." 

344. Is there a detinite general rule for the placing of 

adverbs? 

345. Does an adverb ever separate the infinitive verb and its 

preposition ? Give an example. 
34(). Parse properly in " Honor teaches us properly to 
respect ourselves." 

347. Parse no in " Our courteous Antony, whom ne'er the 

word of no woman heard speak." — Shak. 

348. Parse none, no, not Siud explain these terms in "There 

is none righteous; no, not one." 
341). Is not properly placed in "It is not the business of 
virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but 
to regulate them." 

350. Parse tliere in "There is one glory of the sun," etc. 

351. Parse never and so in "The Lord reigneth, be the 

earth never so unquiet." 

352. What is an expletive ? Give an example. 

353. Give the etymology of the term conjunction. 

354. What are corresponding conjunctions? Give ex- 

amples. 

355. Parse tliat in "That you have wronged me, doth 

appear in this." 
35tJ. Parse tliat in " He spoke low, that I might be more 
prudent." 

357. Parse as in " The words are as follow." 

358. Which is correct. The words are as follow or the 

words are as follows ? 

359. Explain the meaning of "as follows" or "as follow." 
3(50. Distinguish between "as follows" and "as appears." 
3G1. Does good English ever sanction tlian to be construed 

as a preposition ? 
362. Par.se only and also in "Not only the men but the 
women also were present." 



156 LIVE qUESTIONS. 

363. Name the classes of conjunctions; define each class 

and give etymology of the terms. 

364. What is a preposition ? Give the etymology of the term. 

365. What are some of the relations prepositions express? 

366. How are many prepositions compounded ? 

367. Parse /^r and that in ''It is more needful for you, that 

I should abide in the flesh." 

368. Parse y^r Siwd/or in "It is more needful /"^r you, for 

me to abide in the flesh." 

369. What is done when a preposition begins or ends a 

sentence or clause ? 

370. What are the terms of relation between which a prep- 

osition may be used?" 

371. Distinguish between "To walk into the garden," and 

" To walk in the garden." 

372. Between or betwixt ; among or amongst. Explain 

their use. 

373. Parse the italicized words in "To have laid fast Jwld 

of it in his mind." 

374. What do you mean by the "splitting of particles?" 

375. What is an interjection ? Give the etymology of term. 

376. Have interjections any syntax? 

377. Has any of our interjections the power of governing 

sometimes the nominative case and sometimes the 
objective ? 

378. Parse O in " O, Alexander! thou hast slain thy 

friend." 
37!). In " O, \\\o\\ persecutor,'' and " O, wretched /r///r<?," 
parse the italicized words. 

380. Does it not look in No. 379 that some interjections 

have power of governing sometimes the nominative 
case and sometimes the objective ? 

381. Distinguish between the use of (9 and Oh. 

381^. Which of our interjections seem to admit of a con- 
nection with other words by means of a preposition 
. or the conjunction that. Give example*. 



GRAMMAR. 157 

Synthesis. 

383. Construct a sentence with that as an adjective. 

384. Construct a sentence with that as a relative pronoun. 

385. Construct a sentence with that as a conjunction. 

386. Construct a sentence with that as an adjective pro- 

noun. 

387. Write a sentence with 2. participle used as an adverb. 

388. Write a sentence with ?^pafticiple used as a preposition. 

389. Write a sentence with diparticiple used as a conjunction. 

390. Write a sentence with a compound participle as the 

object of a verb. 

391. Write a sentence having an infinitive as subject nomi- 

native. 

392. Write a sentence having an infinitive as predicate 

nominative. 

393. Subjoin an infinitive to a noun. 

394. Subjoin an infinitive to a pronoun. 

395. Subjoin an infinitive to an adjective. 

396. Subjoin an infinitive to a finite verb. 

397. Subjoin an infinitive to another infinitive. 

398. Subjoin an infinitive to a participle. 

399. Subjoin an infi?iitive to an adverb. 

400. Subjoin an infinitive to a preposition. 

401. Subjoin an infinitive to a conjunction. 

402. Subjoin an infinitive to. an interjection. 

403. Can you subjoin an infinitive to an article? Why? 

404. Parse to suffer, as, and to do, in " To suffer, as to do, 

our strength is equal." 

Analysis. 

405. '' For bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss; 
Tedious, unshared s^\\\\ thee, and odious soon^ 

406. " His notions fitted things so well, 

That which was which he could not tell." 

407. '* What touches us ourself, shall be last served," 

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158 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

408. ''An ass will, with his long ears, fray 
The flies that tickle him away ; 

But man delights to hav^ his ears 
Blown maggots in by flatterers. ' ' 

409. Rolled into himself he flew, wide on the bosom of 

winds. 

410. We know him to be an honest 7nan. 

411. There is no use oi opposing legislation. 

412. He, that would honor win, must not fear dying. 

413. We will kiss sweet kisses all the evening long. 

414. Tarry till his return liome. 

415. I chanced upon the prettiest, oddest, fantastical thing 

of a dream the other night. 

416. Let your communication h^ yea, yea, nay, nay; for 

whatsoever is more than these, cometh of evil. 

417. Th.e philosopher, I take to be him who, of all men, 

tries hardest to solve the problem of life. 

418. I was taught Greek by Henry Cole. 

419. What is woi'th doing at all'i?, woi'th doing well. 

420. Being happy and seeming to be happy are very different. 

421. We are come too late. 

422. Not half o\u heavy task was done. 

423. His fame as an orator was great. 

424. I saw the man killed by the locomotive. 

425. Warwick grew 7ip to be a rake. 

426. Both methods are something less than satisfactory. 

427. Seven //^/j- four minus nine are two. 

428. Up, guards ! dd\<\ ' at t\\tm. furiously. 

429. Why am I beaten ? Dost thou not know ? 
Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten. 

Shall I tell you why ? Aye, sir, and wherefore. 

430. An idler is a watch that wants both hands. 
As useless if it goes as when it stands. 

431. Yet, as he ran, he yelled for pain. 

432. And you may gather garlands there 
Would grace a summer queen. 



GRAMMAR. 159 

433. Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers to wither 

at the north winds' breath. 

434. Samuel has more money tha^t he knows what to do 

with. 

435. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 

False Syntax. 

436. Can you remember the book where you saw the pas- 

sage? 

437. Gibbon sometimes utters sentiments whence we can 

derive no good. 

438. Never be ungrateful, for this is one of the most heart- 

less of sins. 

439. We love to see a man modest, which is generally a 

sign of merit. 

440. No man should allow another to commit a crime, if 

he can prevent him. 

441. Distinguish between "a black and blue spot" and 

" a black and a blue spot." 

442. ''I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows. 
Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows." — Shak. 

443. Of which a few of the opening lines is all I shall give. 

444. But they overwhelm whomsoever is ignorant of them. 

445. Once, upon a time, a goose fed its young by a pond 

side. 

446. On the raising such lively and distinct images as are 

here described. 

447. The first proposal was essentially different and inferior 

to the second. 

448. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien. 

As to be hated needs but to be seen. — Pope Mur. Gram. 

449. Justice must punish the rebellious deed ; 

Yet punish so, as pity shall exceed. — Dry den in 
Joh. Diet. 

450. Rising one among another in the greatest confusion 

and disorder. — Spect, No. 476. 



160 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

451. There was a hunting-match agreed upon betwixt a 

lion, an ass, and a fox. — V Estrange. 

452. What is person? It is the medium of distinction 

between the speaker, the object addressed or spoken 
to, and the object spoken of. — Pierce' s Gram. 

453. The distinctions between the principal parts of speech 

are folmded in nature. — Webster's Essays. 

454. You have bestowed your faVors to the most deserving 

persons. — Swift, on Eng. Tongue. 

455. And the first emotion comes at last to be awakened 

by the accidental, instead of by the necessary ante- 
cedent. — / Vayland. 

456. Nor could he refrain expressing to the senate the 

agonies of his mind. 

457. Whether you had not some time in your life. 

458. Err'd in this point which now you censure him. — Shak. 

459. By a single stroke, he knows how to reach the heart. 

4()0. A knowledge of grammar enables us to express our- 
selves better in conversation and in writing com- 
position. 

4(31. What word, then, may ^^ and''' be called? A con- 
junction. — Smith' s N. Gram. 

4G2. Prepositions govern the objective case, as John learned 
his lesson. — Erazee's Grajti. 

463. In rhyme, the last syllable of every two lines has the 

same sound. — Biilleon' s Graju. 

464. They slew Varus, who was he that I mentioned be- 

fore? — Murray'' s Key. 

465. The mixing them makes a miserable jumble of truth 

and fiction. — Kames' El. of Grit. 

466. Parsing is the resolving a sentence into its different 

parts of speech. — Beck' s Gram. 

Principles. 

467. 'V^Hiat is the difference between the ve7-b co])ula and a 
• copulative verb? 



GRAMMAR. Ifil 

408. What may the predicate be? Give examples. 
4()9. Distinguish between predicate and attribute. 

470. State the opinion of some of our authors concerning 

the terms attribute and predicate. 

47 1 . Give the etymology of the terms attribute 2i\\A predicate. 

472. Classify sentences according to their form; according 

to their nature. 

473. What is the logical subject ? Why called logical ? 

474. Distinguish between the terms logical and gratnmatical. 

475. Give an example, in which give logical subject, logical 

predicate, grammatical subject and grammatical 
predicate. 

476. Drstinguish between subject and subject-term as used 

by some authors. 

477. Define an adjective-clause. Give examples. 

478. Define an adverb-clause. Give examples. 

479. Define a substantive-clause. Give examples. 

480. Give examples of complex sentences, omitting that. 

481. Define a word-element. Give examples. 

482. Define a phrase-element. Give examples. 

483. What is the difference between syntax and prosody ? 

484. Define adjective-phrase element. Give examples. 

485. Define adverb-phrase element. Give examples. 
480. What is a sentence? Give etymology of term. 

487. Define a simple sentence. Give examples. 

488. Define a complex sentence. Give examples. 

489. Define a compound sentence. Give examples. 

490. What do you mean by \\\q principal ele7nent ? 

491. What do you mean by the subordinate element? 

492. Distinguish between a clause and a sentence. 

493. Distinguish between a phrase and a clause. 

494. What do we mean by abridged prepositiojts ? 

495. How do you abridge a complex sentence ? Give 

examples. 
490. What is the relation of words? What is the agree- 
ment of words? -• 

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162 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

497. What is the government of words? What is the 

arrangement of words? 

498. How many and what are the principal parts of a 

sentence ? 

499. When is a sentence transformed ? What are equiva- 

lents ? 

500. In what three ways may the form of a sentence be 

changed ? 

501. What three uses of a word are recognized ? 

502. Of what does prosody treat ? Give the etymology of 

the term. 

503. What is punctuation ? Give the etymology of the term. 

504. In punctuation what are the principal points ot marks? 

505. What pauses are denoted by the first four points? 

506. What pauses are required by the other four? 

507. What is the general i^se of the comma? 

508. What is the general use of the semicolon ? 

509. What is the general use of the colon ? 

510. What is the general use of the period? 

511. What is the general use of the dash? 

512. What is the general tise of the eroteme? 

513. What is the general use of the ecphoneme? 

514. What is the general use of the curves or marks of pa- 

renthesis? 

515. State the use of apostrophe, hyphen, caret, breve, 

brace, quotation marks, circumflex, acute accent, 
grave accent. 

516. What is a figure in grammar ? Give examples. 

517. How many kinds of figures are there? 

518.. What is a figure of orthography? Give examples. 

519. What are the principal figures of orthography ? 

520. What is a figure of etymology? Give examples. 

521. What is a figure of syntax? Give examples. 

522. How many and what are the figures of syntax ? 

523. Give examples of pleonasm, and when is this figure 

• allowable ? 



GkAMMAR. 163 

524. What is ellipsis in grammar ? 

525. What parts of speech can be omitted by ellipsis? 

526. What is enallage ? Give examples. 

527. What is a figure in rhetoric, and what peculiar names 

have some of these ? 

528. Do figures of rhetoric often occur? 

529. On what are the figures of rhetoric founded ? 

580. How many and what are the principal figures of 
rhetoric ? 

531. What is an allegory ? A simile? A metaphor? 

532. "^\\dX\^ antitJiesis? Irony? Climax? Personificatio?i? 

533. What is versification? 

534. What is verse, as distirguished ixov^ prose ? 

535. What is the rhythm of verse ? 

536. What is rhyme? What is blank verse? What is a 

stanza ? 

537. Of what does a verse consist ? Give an example. 

538. Of what does a poetic foot consist ? 

539. Can a single foot be a line? 

540. What is meant by scanning or scansion ? 

541. What is a couplet? Give examples. 

542. Under how many heads are the errors against purity 

classed ? 

543. What do we mean by barbarism ? Give examples. 

544. What do we mean by solecism ? Give examples. 

545. What do we mean by impt'opriety ? Give examples. 

546. We find ''many improprieties are provincialisms or 

district peculiarities." Will you name them? 

547. What do we mean by Scotticisms? Irishisms? Cock- 

neyisms ? 

Synthesis. 

548. Build a sentence with worth as a noun. 

549. Build a sentence with worth as a preposition. 

550. Write in a sentence an adjective having no positive 

degree. 



164 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

551. An adjective having no comparative. 

552. Write two sentences illustrating the proper use of s/ia// 

and wi7/. 

553. Write two sentences illustrating the proper use of 

should and would. 

554. Fill blanks in "Wood is not durable iron." 

555. " He ate so much he became sick." 

556. Write a sentence in which a modifies a possessive noun. 

557. Write a sentence in which all is an adverb. 

558. Write a sentence in which as is a preposition. 

559. Write a sentence having the possessive plural of billet- 

doux. 

560. Write a sentence having the possessive plural oi father- 

in-law. 

561. Write a sentence having the possessive plural of sloop- 

of-war. 

562. Construct a sentence having the plural of tailor' s goose. 

563. Write a correct elliptical sentence. 

564. Write a sentence having the possessive plural o{ post- 

master-general. 

565. Construct a sentence having as connecting words in 

apposition. 

566. Write a sentence in which there is an ellipsis of that. 
5()7. Write a sentence in which there is an ellipsis of which. 

568. Write a sentence in which there is an ellipsis of a 

preposition. 

569. Write a sentence in which there is an ellipsis of the 

antecedent of a relative. 

570. Write a sentence in which there is an ellipsis of a 

conjunction. 

571. Construct a sentence having a comparative clause. 

572. Write a sentence having for its predicate the passive, 

indicative, present, third, plural form of see. 

573. Write sentences illustrating the proper use of ivho, 

which, and that. 

574. Write sentences illustrating the correct use of each. 



GRAMMAR. 165 

575. Write sentences containing the words ravel and un- 

ravel, logically. 

576. Can you write a sentence with ahuay used logically? 

577. Write the third person singular of the verb to strike 

in the common, emphatic and progressive, active 
and passive forms of the indicative and subjunctive 
moods, past tense. 

578. Write correctly in words -^-Jy. 

579. Write sentences illustrating the correct use of set and 

sit, of lay and lie, of learnt and taught, of instruct 
and teach. 

580. Write out in full E. J., e. g., Zool, Pwt., H. B. M. 

581. Write out in full N., myth., Mo, 4to, LL.D., P., 

pp., oz. 

532. Why is '' LL. D.," written with double '' L "? 

583. Write a sentence with the feminine oi pope, of an- 
chorite. 

58-4. Write a sentence with the masculine oi gainmer ; of 
nymph. 

585. Can you write a sentence with end used in the com- 

parative ? 

586. Write a sentence with farthermost in the positive. 

Analysis. 

587. I grant that men continuing what they are, there must 

be war. 

588. Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it : 

Why hast thou made me thus ? 

589. Atvake I Arise ! ox be ioreYtr fallen. 

590. So live, that when thy summons comes, to Join 
The innumerable caravan that moves 

To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take 
His chamber in the silent hall of death. 

591. I, loving you as much as I love you, love honor more. 

592. What /;/ thunder are you here for ? 



166 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

593. JF/iy, this so rare ? Because forgot of all the day of 

death. 

594. His nose, large as were the others, bore them down 

into insignificance. 

595. The maddest man, he knows not why ; 
He thinks he was not born to die. 

59(5. He looked as though the speed of thought were in his 
limbs. 

597. Come, you at least were twenty nihen you married ; 

that makes yow forty. 

598. Much as he loved his wealth, he loved his children better. 

599. How dost and how hast been these eighteen months ? 
(109. His lord's commands he ne'er withstood^ 

Though small his pleasure to do good. 
GOl. I staggered a few paces, I know not whither. 
(102. ''If, with all its troubles, we are in danger of beitig 
too 7?iuch attached to it, how entirely would it have 
seduced our affections, if no troubles had been 
f?ii77gled \\\i\\ its pleasures." 
(»0H. " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 

Unseen, both lohen we wake and when we sleep." 
(1(14. " Oft, in bands. 

While they kept watch, or /lightly routtdi/igv^^W, 

With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds. 

In full harmonic number ]ointd, their songs 

Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven." 
(!(I5. "See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, 

All matter quick, and bursting into birth." 
(1(16. '■'■ On superior pow'rs 

Were we to press, inferior 7?iight on ours, 

Or, in the full creation leave a void. 
Where, one step brokefi, the great scales destroyed." 
()07. He has been here ever since his brother came. 
(j()8. "All now are vanished I Virtue sole survives. 

Immortal, never-failing friend of man, 

Yi\'s> guide to happiness on high." 



GRAMMAR. 167 

609. ''In winter, awful TAou, with clouds and storms 
Around Thee throivn, tempest o'er tempest roU'd, 
Majestic darkness I On the whirlwind's wing, 
Riding sublime, Thou bid'' st the world adore ; 
And humblest nature with thy northern blast." 

610. " The chamber where the good man meets his fate, 
Is privileg\d beyond the common walk 

Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heav'n." 

611. ''A dust, dug from the bowels of the earth. 
Which, being cast into the fire, caine out 

A shining thing that fools admired, and called 
A god; and in devout and humble flight 
Before it kneeled, the greater to the less. ' ' 

612. "Love, and his sister fair, the soul. 
Twin-born, from heaven together came." 

618. '• Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, 
A youth to fortune, and fame unknown.'' 

614. " Who lives to nature rarely can hQ poor, 
\W\-\o lives to fancy never can be rich.'" 

615. Make a proper use of your time, and remember that 

when it is once gone it ca?i never be recalled. 

616. When a man loses his integrity, he loses the founda- 

tion of his virtue. 

617. According to some ancient philosphers, the sun ({uenches 

his flames in the ocean. 

False Syntax (Critical). 

6I(S. He or you are in the wrong. — Incorrect. Bain. 

611). He or you is surely to be present. — Incorrect. Hill. 

62(1. You think you shall go to the city, then? 

621. My father loveth flowers, but he loves his children 

best. 

622. Charles is the tallest of his three brothers. 

623. Be not too tame neither. 

624. He comes ; nor want nor cold his course delay. 



1(38 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

625. He thinks that he will soon return. 
62(). The ebb and flow of the tides were explained by 
Newton. 

627. Great numbers were killed on either side. 

628. This kind of wit is that which abounds in Cowley 

more than in any other author that ever wrote. — 
Addison. 
62!). Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him was a 
strange unearthly figure, whom Gabriel felt at once 
was no being of this world. — Dickens. 

630. A husband, on receiving news of the sudden and 

violent death of a lady in whom he had so near an 
interest, might have been- expected to have at least 
gone in person to the spot. — Froude. 

631. I have never seen Major Cartwright, much less enjoy 

the honor of his acquaintance. 

632. Each, in their turn, like Banquo's monarchs stalk. — 

Byron. 

633. And tell what each of them by th' other lose. — Shak., 

Cori. Hi, 2. • 

Analysis (Critical). 

634. ^^Away, old man; give me thy hand ; away."" 

635. "-^ I' 11 hence to London, on a serious matter." 

636. This is quite a different ; yes, '' this is a quite differ- 

ent thing." 

637. ^^ Told of a many thousand warlike French." 

638. '^But ever to do ill our sole delight. 
As being contrary to his high will." 

639. I'll have thee hanged to feed the crew. 

640. Miss Mary loves to sit up late, either reading or being 

read to. 

641. The hour concealed, and so remote the fear, 
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. 

642. Conscience, her first law broken, wounded lies. 

643. I hope she takes me to be flesh and blood. 



GRAMMAR. 169 

()44. /f I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. 
045. Till then, in blood by noble Percy lie. 
G4(). One moj-n, a Peri at the gate 

Of Eden stood, disconsolate. 
(UT. History is philosphy teaching by examples. 
()48. ['■No7v is the winter of our discontent 

Made glorious summer by the sun of York." 
041). ''O, mother myn, that c leaped v^Qrt Argyue, 

No worth that day that thou me bare on lyne.'' — 
Chaucer. 

650. What touches us ourself, shall be last served. 

False Syntax (Critical). 

651. Though the construction will *not admit of a plural 

verb, the sentence would certainly stand better 
thus : The king, the lords, and the commons, form 
an excellent constitution. — Murray. 

652. And sometimes two unaccented syllables follow each 

other. — Blair' s R. 
65o. We abound more in vowel and diphthong sounds 
than most languages. 

654. Covetousness is what, of all vices, enters the deepest 

into the soul. 

655. However disagreeable, we must resolutely perform our 

duty. — Murray' s Key. 

656. What nouns frequently succeed each other ? — San- 

born^ s Gram. 

657. Repeat some adverbs that are composed of the article 

a and nouns. — Kirkhani s G. 

658. I suppose each of you think it is your own nail. — 

Abbot f s Teacher. 

659. A ship expected ; of whom we say, she sails well. — 

Ben Jons on' s Gram. 

660. No monstrous height, or length, or breadth appear. — 

Pope. 

661. Tell me in sadness whom is she you love. — Shak. 

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170 /. I VE q UES TIO XS!. 

G&2. He dare not touch a liair of Catiline. 

(U^i). A letter is a character that denotes one or more oi' the 

elementary sounds of language, and is the least 

distinct part of a written word. — KcrP s C. S. 
(U)4. It seemed that to waylay and murder the king and his 

brother was the shortest way. — Min\n(/av. 
()(),"). What can be the cause of the parliament neglecting 

so important a business? 
^^^i\. That is seldom or ever the case. 

(U)7. Not only Delaware, but all New York was in a blaze. 
GG8. Give me it. 

Analysis (Critical). 

()G9. The more sleek the J^rey, the greater the temptation ; 
and no wolf will leave a lamb fo dine upon a por- 
cupine. 

i)70. If I will that lie tarry //// I come, :^'hat is that to thee? 

(ill. They may say "It is wr," if they ivisJi to. 

1)72. He expects the Jiorse to be Jiarnessed by him. 

073. He expects him to harness the horse. 

G74. Who labor in this work of hell, foul and tlark, os may 
become the emissaries of so horrible a trade. 

675. Tho' tost to sight, to memory dear. 

(>7(). "■ Woe worth the dav, woe worth the chase that took 
away my gallant gray." 

(>77. "His head was frozen into a pool of blood and water." 

()78. " The Chinese are said to have invented music." 

67!>. ''As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying. 
so the curse causeless shall not come." 

(i8(K As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man 
that wandereth from his place. 

081. " IVhat made thee, when they a// icere i:;one 
And nofie but thou and /alone. 
To act the devil, ^wd forbear 
To rid me of my hellish fear?" 

682. AVho dared to nobly stem tyrannic />'vVi'. 



GRAMMAR. 171 

False Syntax (Critical). 

(I8!i. I rlefy any candid and clear thinker to deny in the 
name of inductive sc;ience either of these six prop- 
ositions. — Rev. Jos. Cook. 

(I!S4. Here is a life of Johnson, accompanied by copious 
extracts from his writings. 

(585. The good ship sunk, overwhelmed with the surging 
waters. 

080. I woubt if the world ever saw such a fleet before. 

687. You cannot certainly doubt but he will keep his 
promise. 

088. Name each King of England in succession. 

089. I have no fears but what they will answer. 

CRITICISE WITH REGARD TO CLEARNESS. 

(Continue this exercise.) 

000. He labored to involve his minister in ruin, who had 

been the author of it. 

001. Entering, with the key in his hand, he shut the door, 

and put it in his pocket. 

092. He returned the book when he drove up in the car- 

riage that he borrowed. 

093. James told his brother that he would have to black 

his boots. 
694. I neither estimated myself highly nor lowly. 

CRITICISE WITH REGARD TO ENERGY. 
(Continue this exercise.) 

095. I was forced to go home partly by force and partly by 
stealth. 

090. The old inform the young, and the young may ani- 

mate those who are advanced in life. 
097. I went home full of a great many reflections. 
698. I hope this is the last time I shall act so imprudently. 



172 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

()99, The writings of Buchanan, and especially his " Scot- 
tish History," are written with strength, perspi- 
cniitv, and neatness. 



Exercises, etc. 

CRITICISE WITH REGARD TO HARiMONV. 
(Student may continue this exercise.) 

TOO. It was as glorious a scene as I have ever seen. 

701. He then became king; but no one who had known 

him believed that he would make a good king. 

702. 'Twas thou that soothed the rough rugged bed of pain. 
7(^o. After the most straightest sect of our religion, I lived 

a Pharisee. 

NAME THE FIGURES GIVEN RELOW. 
(Continue tliis exercise.) 

704. Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend. 

705. Ingratitude ! thou fiend, with heart like marble. 
70(>. He is fond of his bottle. 

707. O gentle sleep. 

Nature's soft nur.se! 
70S. Life is a sea, how fair its face, 

How smooth its dimpling waters pace I 

709. He deserves the palm. 

710. Here once the embattled farmers stood, 
And fired the shot heard round the world. 

CRITICISE THE FOLLOWING FAULTY FIGURES. 

(Continue this exercise.) 

711. The death of Cato has rendered the Senate an orphan. 

712. We must keep the ball rolling until it becomes a thorn 

in the side of Congress. 



GRAMMAR. 173 

718. Hope, the balm of life, darts a ray of light through 
the thickest gloom. 

714. A torrent of superstition consumed the land. 

715. The colonies were not yet ripe to bid adieu to British 

connection. 

INSERT THE PROPER WORDS IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES 

SELECTINCi FROM THE SYNONYMS GIVEN. 

(Continue ad. lib^) 

Offence .1 trespass, affront, misdemeanor, uiisdeed, transgression. 

716. We the moral or civil law. 

717. Forgive the barbarous of my tongue. 

Heap, pile, accumulate, ainass. 

718. In these odes glittering but graceful ornaments have 

been . 



719. This would I celebrate with annual games. 
With gifts on altars — ■ , and holy flames. 

Excessive, immoderate, intemperate. 

72(1. Who knows not the languor that attends every 

indulgence in pleasure. 

721. With them it rises to expectations founded on 

their supposed talents and imagined merits. 

Peace, cptiet, calm, tranquility. 

722. A paltry tale-bearer will discompose the of a 

whole family. 

723. '' Indulgent pow'r serene. 

Mother of , and joy, and love." 

To unfold, unra7iel, develop. 

724. " And to the sage-instructing eye 



The various twine of light." 

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174 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

725. You must be sure all your designs to a jealous 

man . 
72fi, The character of Tiberius is extremely difficult . 



VARY THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES BY CIRCUMLOCUTION. 

727. The sun has set. 

728. Knowledge is power. 

729. Lincoln is dead. 

730. Geography is useful. 



YARY THE F0LL0W1N(; SENTENCES I?Y RECASTING THEM. 

731. The age of chivalry has gone. 

732. Great Britian is an island. 

733. The Bible is a very ancient book. 

734. Man is mortal. 



EXAMPLE : MAN IS MORTAL. 

Variations. Man must die. Man's end is death. 
Death is over every creature. Humanity is doomed 
to die. Mortality is the universal decree. Man can 
not live forever. The grave awaits all men. Man's 
mortality is certain. The death-penalty has been 
passed upon all men. 

GIVE RHETORICAL AND GRAMMATICAL REASONS IN 
CORRECTING THE FOLLOWIN(; ERRORS. 

735. John admitting Henry to the room may seem strange 

to some. 

736. John fearing an outbreak, bade Henry leave the room. 

737. Though the measure be mysterious, it is worthy of 

our attention. 

738. If he does but approve my endeavors, it will be an 

ample reward. 



GRAMMAR. 175 

7)>J). There is no one, that did his best. (Parse the in- 
serted word. ) 
74(1. 1 prefer being right rather than be president. 

741. James, are you hurt? " Not as I know of." 

742. William loves Charles equals Gulielmus amat Carolum. 

What is " Charles loves William " equal to? F^x- 
plain the superior advantage to secure clearness the 
Latin language has over the English, from the ex- 
amples given. 
748. I esteem you more than or as much as they. I esteem 
you more than or as much as them. Which is 
correct ? 

744. " Blessed are the meek ! " That was one of his obser- 

vations. 

745. x\ foreigner said while bathing, " I will be drowned ; 

nobody shall help me." 

746. In his confab he made a spec, for himself. 

747. I noticed in his phiz that he played the poz hyp. 

748. Woman without her man would be a savage. 

749. Lost : A cow belonging to an old woman with brass 

knobs on her horns. 

750. Wanted : A man to plow with a Roman nose. 

751. Sidney Smith said to the chapter of St. Paul's, con- 

cerning the proposal to lay a wooden pavement 
around the building, " If we lay our heads to- 
gether, the thing is done." Is this witty or humor- 
ous? Can you change it? 

Miscellaneous. 

752. What are the principal sources of the English lan- 

guage ? 

753. What do you understand by philology ? 

754. When is the infinitive form called a gerund ? 

755. Distinguish each of the four forms in i7ig from the 

three others, one by one. 



176 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

756. What is meant by difference of voice? 

757. To signify difference of voice, what is done besides 

inflecting the verb itself? 

758. Mention the chief of the cumulative conjunctions, and 

name all the co-ordinating illative conjunctions. 

759. Tell what you can of the history of the English lan- 

guage. 

760. To what extent is our language a science ? 

761. What is your view of the origin of language ? Divine 

or acquired ? 

762. What adverbs are also prepositions? How may 

prepositions be supposed to become conjunctions? 

763. What are the two different uses of words? 

764. In what way do we best discover differences ? 

765. What are the facts that all knowledge begins from? 

766. What is the meaning o^ genits and species? 

767. What is the difference between Pittsburgh has a 

mayor, and all the Pennsylvanian towns have 
mayors ? 

768. Why are class names ^i,*-*?;/*?;'^/ and significant? 

769. What part of speech do the lower animals use? 

770. How are compound sentences contracted ? 

771. How is the adverbial clause contracted? 

772. Name the instances in which form aids us in deter- 

mining the office of words. 
778. Explain the force of the relative clause in the sen- 
tence, " He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." 

774. What words are used to introduce noun clauses? 

775. In what order are the parts of speech mastered by the 

child learning to talk ? 

776. What are some of the leading laws to be observed in 

the construction of good language ? 

777. What view is taken of the negative 7tot in the analysis 

of sentences? 

778. Show by examples what various positions the adjective 

clause may have in the sentence. 



GRAMMAR. 177 

779. Explain in full what we mean by a part of speech. 

780. What verbs have a double inflection ? 

781. Mention verbs that neither modify the root-vowel nor 

add en. 

782. What are the original meanings of shall diwd oi will ? 

783. What are the characteristic inflections in verbs of the 

old conjugation ? 

784. In the saying, ''We owe you nothing," who are de- 

noted by we ? In ' ' // rains, ' ' to what does it refer ? 

785. What is the mode of reference in such expressions 

''lord it,'" "brave it out;'' and how do you 
parse /// 

786. What is the chief relative of restriction? Give sen- 

tences showing the difference between co-ordina- 
tion and restriction. 

787. What is meant by an element ? 

788. What is meant by declension, and why so-called? 

789. What is the difference between modification and in- 

flection ? 

790. On what principle is all grammatical construction 

founded ? 

791. In the saying, '' We pursue what pleases us," give the 

use of what. 

792. What are pronominal adverbs ? Why are they called 

pronominal ? 

793. (xive the comparative adverbs. 

794. What are adverbs of belief and disbelief? 

795. Give the meaning of "to,"" with examples. 
79(1. Distinguish the meanings of "fory 

797. Under what circumstances does the verb fail to agree 

with its subject in person and number? 

798. When should the ess be added to form the feminine? 

When not ? 

799. What is meant by adjunct elements? 

800. What order do you observe in analyzing a sentence ? 

801. How would you begin to teach the English Language ? 



178 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

802. Explain how to conduct a "Language Lesson." 

S0:>. What is the object in diagraming, and what is your 
view of its importance as a method of teaching 
Grammar? Give your reasons for such views. 

S04, Where is the inflection put in compound nouns? 

805. What is meant by the superlative of eminence ? 

80(!. Are adjectives inflected onlv for differences of degree ? 



ANALYZE, PARSE, CONSTRUCT, AND CORRECT THE 
FOLLOWING SENTENCES. 

807. I never heard of this l)eiug questiojted. 

808. Write a sentence having an infinitive used as a con- 

junction. 
800. Write a sentence having a clause used as a conjunction. 

Note. — Be sure tJiat Nos. 808 and 800 do not escape 
your notice. 

810. And even white fashion's brightest arts decoy, 
The heart, distrusting, asks if this If e Joy. 

811. Ail tJiat he does is to distribute 7vhat others i)roduce ; 

whicJi is the least part of the business. 

812. Nor second he that rode suldime 
Upon the seraph-wings of ecstacy. 
The secrets of the abyss to spy. 

818. He that fights and runs away 
May live to figiit another day. 

814. Man wants but little here below 
Nor wants that little long. 

815. Every man should let his man-servant, and every man 

his maid-servant, being 2^ Hebrew or an Hebrewess, 
go free ; that none should serve himself of them, to 
wit, of A Jew his brother. 

No IE. — Why written a Hebrew or an Hebrewess? — 
See Jer. xxxiv., 9. 



GRAMMAR. 179 

81 (i. The beautiful forest in which we were encamped 
abounded in bee-trees ; that is to say, trees in the 
decayed trunks of which wild bees had established 
their hives. 

817. Correct the following sentence: ''The attempt may 
succeed in this case, but it is not often that it is 
safe to make it. 

SIS. Correct "He complained that he had suffered him 
only to use his horse for one day." 

819. Correct ''Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of 

mankind proceed from idleness." 

820. Correct "Hoping to hear from you soon, believe me 

yours truly. ' ' 

821. Correct " Some persons can only distinguish black, 

white, and gray." 

822. C'orrect " That bliss which only centers in the mind." 
828. Correct "You are the first that rears your head." 

824. This is life indeed., life wortJi preservi]ig. 

825. O God ! nietJiinks it were a happy life 
To Ik' no better tha?i a homely swain. 

82(5. The knowledge of why they so exist, must be the last 
act of favor which time and toil will bestow. 

S27. Now, therefore, let thy servant abide in place of the 
lad, a bondman to my lord. 

828. Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts. 
The Terence of England, the member of hearts ; 
A flattering painter who makes it his care 

. To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. 

829. When civil dudgeon y^r^-/ grew high, 
And mQn fell out, they knew not why ; 
Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, 
And out he rode a-colonelling. 

830. Leaves have their time to fall, 

And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath. 

831. How France was saved from this humiliation, and how 

the Great Alliance was preserved, will now be seen. 



ISO LIVE QUESTIONS. 

832. // fell upon a raw and gusty day, 

The troubled Tiber chafing with his shores. 
Soo. The rose that all are praising is not the rose for me. 

834. The boy stood on the burning deck, 
Whence all but him had fled. 

835. Home they brought her warrior dead. 
83(). With droll sobriety they raised a smile, 

At Foliy s cost, themselves unmoved the while. 
837. Those poets who owe their h^'sifame to his skill, 
Shall still be his flatterers, go where he tvill. 




CHAPTER VI I. 

LossiNG's Outline History of the 
United States. 



Numerals with a dash between, thus, 1-2, indicate that the topic 
is continued from page 1 to page 2 ; when in this form, 73, 98, it 
indicates that the topic is treated of separately in those pages. 

I have given the p(7^e's for the convenience of teachers. 



Discoveries. 



1. Can you define the form and extent of the United 

States of America? 17. 

2. What can you tell about the construction of the Gov- 

ernment of the United States? 7. 

3. What have you to say about the earlier discoveries, 

and discoveries of America? 8. 

4. What caused Columbus to seek Asia by sailing west- 

ward ? 7-8. 

5. What did Queen Isabella do? 10. 

6. What can you tell about the first voyage of Colum- 

bus? 11-18. 

7. W\va.t land did Columbus first discover? 13. 

8. What can you tell about the Indians and their hab- 

its? 15-18. 

16 (181) 



182 



LIVE qV EST IONS. 



I), Can \()u give an account of the religion, government, 
mariiages, and burials of the Indians? 17. 

10. What Inilian nations were found in North .America 

1)\' luH-opeans? 1!>-2(I. 

11. What can nou tell about other voyages of Columbus? 

2(1-21. 

12. AN'hat have you to say about Aniericus \\*s])ucius and the 

name of America? 21. 
l.'>. (li\e an account o( discoveries by Spaniards. 21-27. 
1 I. What can \o\\ ti'll about Spaniards in Morida? 25-27. 
15. W'lu) discovered the Mississippi Rix'cr, and when? 27. 
1(). Who discoNcred Calit'ornia, and who explored its 

coasts ? 25, 27. 
17. What can )'ou tell about Cabot and his ili.scoveries ? 

28. 
IS. What ha\e you [o sav abt)ut the voyage of \'era/- 

/ani? 2!). 
1!>. What can \'ou tell about discoveries in North America 

by the I'rench ? :>0. 

20. What can you tell about Admiral Colign\ and his 

doings? ol. 

21. (^live an account of the Huguenots in South Carolina 

and Florida:^ :{2. 

22. What terrible cxents occurred in Idorida ? i>2. 

2.">. What can wm tell about Francis Drake's exploits on 
the .\nuMican coasts? I>i>. 

21. What have you to .say about Walter Raleigh? :}:)-o5. 

25. Tell about Raleigh's efforts to plant a colonv in Amer- 
ica ? :i5. 

2(t. What can von tell about a lost colony? .'>()-o7. 

27. CiiNC an ai-count oi explorations of the coast of New 

England. 1)7. 

28. What i-an \ou tell about the French in Nova S(xnia 

and on the St. T/iwreni'e? o7. 
21). What can you tell about Henry Hudson and his dis- 
coveries ? o7-o8. 



JT J STORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 1R3 

Settlers and Settlements. 

30. What nations claimed America l)y right of discovery? 

42. 
.'>!. What can you tell about Virginia, and companies 

fcjrmed for settling tlie country? 42. 
82. (live an account of the first settlers in Virginia 48-44. 
38. What romantic event occurred in Virginia? 45. 

84. What can you tell about Cajjtain Smith and his exphj- 

rations? 44-45. 

85. What can you tell about the unthrift and vicious con- 

diK t of the settlers in Virginia? 44, 45. 

80. What can you tell about Pocahontas and her good 
services to the colony ? 45, 47. 

i>7. 'iell about the ''Starving time" in Virginia. 4!). 

88. (live an account of Lord Delaware and the Commis- 
sioners for Virginia. 4!>. 

81). What happy event occurred in Virginia after the arrival 
of the Commissioners? 49. 

40. What can you tell about the kidnapping of Pocahontas, 

and her marriage and fate ? 40. 

41. What can you tell about the charters of \\\it London 

Company ? 42, 47, 50. 

42. What did the discoveries of Hudson lead to ? 51. 
48. Give an account of the founding and settlement of New 

Netherland. 52-54. 

44. Who discovered the Connecticnit River? 51. 

45. What can you tell about the founding of Albany and 

the DutcJi West India Company ? 52. 
40. What can you tell about families in New Netherland ? 
52. 

47. What can you tell about the Plymouth Company? 42, 

58. 

48. Tell about Captain Smith's exploration of New En- 

gland. 58. 

49. What have you to say about the Puritans ? 53. 



] 84 LIVE Q I J K STK) N S. 

50. VVIiat can you Icll about a I'lirilan cinigratioii lo Hol- 

land and America? 511-51. 

51. What can you tt-ll about the ^ovcrnrncnl and sufferings 

of the Puritans in Massachusetts? 55. 
5^;. What can you tell about New llanii)shire, its founcbuL;- 

and its government ? 57. 
5!). W hat can you tell about Lord Caltinioii' ? (iO. 
5 1. What can you say about the settleuK-nt of Maryland 

and founding of the commonwealth ? (id -(12. 
55. 'Cell al)out settlements in Conne( ticut. ()2. 
5(). (live an account of the cause and i»rogress of llu' war 

with tin- re(|U()ds. (I.'l (I I. 

57. What can you tell about the New 1 laven ( 'olony ? (!5. 

58. What have you to say about Roger Williams and his 

banishment? (15. 

5!>. What can you tell about the louiuling of the Provi- 
dence and Rhode Island settlements ? (>(>. 

()0. 'l\'ll about tlu' '"Rlioilr /s/aiid aiitJ Pri>viiicnc(' Planfa- 
lioiisy ()(». 

(II. (live an account of the Swedes on the Delaware. (>7. 

(Hi. What (an you tell about the subjugation of the Swedes 
on the 1 )ela\vare? (!S. 

().'>. (live an account of the settlement of New Jersey. (»S. 

(11. What can you tell about the founding of the Stale of 
New Jersey? CS (ID. 

(>5. What have you to say about hriends or (^)uakers? (!1>. 

(Id. What can you tell about William Penn and the found- 
ing and settlement of Pennsylvania? (II>. 

(17. 'l\'ll al)()ut Penn's treaty with the Indians, the govern- 
ment of iVnnsylvania, and founding of Philadeli)hia. 
(i!)-7(l. 

()S. Give an account of settlers in North Carolina. 71. 

(>!>. llow and when was the counnonwealth of North Caro- 
lina established ? 71. 

70. What can you tell about the settlement of South Caro- 
lina? 71-72. 



HISTORY 01^ THK UNITED STATES. ]85 

71. Tell about the foiiiKling (jf Charleston, and the estab- 

lishment of the comnionvvealth of South Carolina. 

72. What have you to say about the founding of the colony 

of Georgia? 78. 



The Colonies. 

73. In what order did the States grow? 42, 77. 

74. When was the first representative government in 

America established ? 77-7.S. 

75. What can you tell about wives for the Virginia planters ? 

7H. 
7(1. What can you tell about the first introduction of negro 
slaves into the United States? 7.S. 

77. Tell about a massacre by Indians in Virginia, and re- 

taliation. 7<S. 

78. What can you tell alxjut a change of government in 

Virginia? 7!). 

79. What was the popular currency in Virginia? 71). 

80. What have you to say aljout Covernor Berkeley? 7!>. 

81. What can you say about civil war in England? 71). 

82. Tell about a second massacre by Indians in Virginia? 

71). 
88. What can you tell about civil war in Virginia? 80. 

84. What have you to say about Bacon and his '* rebellion ?" 

80. 

85. Tell about a revolution in England? SO. 

8(5. What have you to say about the colony at Plymouth 
and the Indians? 81-82. 

87. What have you to say about Massasoit? 82, 

88. What can you tell about the partnership between '' The 

Pilgrims" and London Merchants? 55, 82. 

89. What can you tell about the Massachusetts Bay Com- 

pany ? 88. 

90. Tell about the founding of Boston. 83. 

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«;«>vci iiiiKiil III M.ii.s.K liir.cM;. r.;iy .-^ HI. 
\Vli;il li.ivc yon In '„i y .ilioiil ko^cr VV illi.iiii .iiid Amu* 

I I ill( liili'.oli, III IVl;i:,'.;i< liir.cl Is ^ Hi. 
Wii.il < ;iii \'<)ii Icll .ihoiil ,1 New I'.iij'hinl ( oiiifflcr.M y, 

;iii(| llic |M i|iiil;il ion ol New I'.iij'I.iihI :■• .S I Sfj. 
W I I.I I li.ivc yoii lo s;iy ;iIkiiiI [n »IiI k •, .hk I pi i t',|M'i il y in 

IVl;iss;i< liir.cllsi^ Sf). 
Tell ;il)()iil I he lii'.l (oiii.ijM- III I lif I 1 nilcd Sl;ilcs. Hf). 
(iiv<- .'III :ii)<)iiiil (il llic |ici',c( ijl M )ii ol I'liciids or 

<,)ii;ikci:, III M;i',;.ii« liiiscll:,. Sn. 
VVii.'il ( :iii yoii Icll :i|)oiil In:, I i c:,i;,l,iii( c lo l.'ix.ilioii in 

M;is:,;i( liir.cll;. i' SO. 
( 1 i vc .'III ;i( ( oiiiil ol I In' ( .iii'.c .iiid |)fo/.;i'i'SS ol Kin^ 

riiilip's w.ii. SV 110. 
Tell :ihoiil llicdc'.liii. hoii ol llic N;iii;i;;;inscls. SH 00. 
( )vci wli.il cxiciil did l\iiii', riiilip's w.ii s|)r(';id ? 00. 
Wli.'il ( .III yon Icll ol llic dc.'illi ol Km;' I'liilipi' !»0. 
\Vli;il vv.i:. done Willi Kliij', I 'li i 1 1 p's l.nn 1 1 \ i' !M). 
VVIiiil ( ;iii \()ii Icll .ihoiil ;iii .'illeinpl lo l;ike.'i\v:iy llic 

New i'Jijd.iiid < 'li.iilcrs? IM). 
\\ li.il (.111 \'oii Icll .iltoiil W illi.nn .111(1 M:ii\ of V.w 

|d:iiid,,iii(l I lie ( ;iii:,c ol \v;ir\villi I'Liik c .^^ 01. 
( live .III ;i( ( oiinl ol "Kill)', Willi.inr;. W'.ii . " 01 Oli. 
W li:il li:i\ (' \ on lo s.iy .'ilioiil llic I' i iin li .iiid liidi.iiis? 

W li;il ( .III \(iii Icll .iltoiil S( lic|ic( l;i(l\ , ;iiid .111 c\pi'- 

dil loll ;i;',;iinsl < 'nn.id.i \' !M . 
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New l';ii,d.iii(l ,' 1 01!, 
( ii\'c :iii :i( ( oiinl ol llic l>c;'iniiin<; :ii)(l rc!.iill ol llu' 

/' .Salem wih Ik lall " dcln.ioii. Oli. 
( live an a( ( (»iiiil (»l " ( )iieeeii Anne's War." !>'J I . 
Tell ajxMil llic (oiiledeia( \ ol llic /'//V N(l//(>//s. !•.'{. 
Wlial can \(mi Icll ahoiil cxpcdilioiis aj^ainsl Nova 

S((»lia and ('anada, and llic ri'siill ^ 05. 



iiisToi:)' or 77//'; n\r/'/<:n statics. is7 



i:{. \Vli;il (.III yi)ii Icll ;il)<)iil Km;.', Ccor^M-'s Wiir ? IM. 

II. VVIkiI li.ivc you lo s;iy oImii cxiicdil ion ;ij.,',;iinsl Loiiis- 

hiiri^, in 17 If)? IM. 
If). 'IVIi ;il)oiit D'Anvillc, ills cxpcdilion, :in(l l.ilc. Itf). 
Id. Wli.il lr(;il y ended K in;-, ( leoi>',e's VV.ii .-^ itf). 
17. VVIiMl ( ;ni you lell ;iIjouI ;,(I I Icuk nl:, in New Neliiei 

l:ind ^ !»(i •>7. 
IH. Wli.il liave you lo s.iy ;d)oul I'li/roons? 07. 

III. VVIi.il liMve you lo s.iy .dtoul ( iovernor;; V;in 'rwiller 

.umI Kiefl ? !I7. 
l!(). Tell .ijjoul |>o|)iil;ii re|>ic:,enl;il ives in New N<l liei l.ind. 

!I7, !)!». 
lil. VVIi.il iiouhl"', did Kiell ric.ile, ;ind how? !>.S. 
22. VV li;il li.ive y(ju lo say :d)oul ( iovernor Sluyves.inl ? HH. 
2.'i. '\\-\\ ;d)oiil SluyvesMnl':, lioiihles willi the Swedes and 

the I'Jl^'jlsh. !)!>. 
21. Wli.il h.ive you losiiyahoul ;i re|)ie',enl;ili ve ;issend)ly 

in New NelJKTJ.Mid ^ ll!». 

25. Oive ;ni ;i« < ouni ol liie surrender of New Nelheij.nid 

to the- l'jijj,li:Ji, .uid rh;inj.M' in iIk* niinie ol ihe 

))rovin( c. 100. 

20. 'IVII how ;ind when New Vol k was icl;d.en hy the 

I )ul( h, ;nid .i^ain surrendered lo Ihe l'ji|^li;,li. HKI. 

127. VVIial have y(JU lo say ahoul a Cliiuhr of Liht'i/irs lor 

New York? 101. 
12H. Whal have you lo say ahoul Liesler and polilMal 

niovenieiits in New York? lOl. 
120. Whal have you lo say ahoul ihe vindifalion ol I he 

Ireedoin ol ihe |)ress, in Nc-w York? 102. 
I!>0. Whal liave you to siy ahoul repre'.ental i ve govern- 
nieiit in Maryland, and a I )e( l.n.ii ion ol Rights? 

lo:'.. 

I.'JI. Whal (an you lell .ihoul ('layhoine in Maryland? 



i:'*2. What have you lo say about the M;irylan<l " 'I olera- 
Liun Act," and ils eflcM I ? 10 1. 



188 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

133. What have you to say about changes in the govern- 

ment and the capital of Maryland ? 104, 105. 

134. Give an account of a first and second civil war in 

Maryland. 104, 105. 

135. What have you to say about the Connecticut colonies, 

and a royal charter? 106-107. 

136. What have you to say about boundary disputes? 

107. 

137. Give an account of an attempt to steal the charter of 

Connecticut; also of the ''Charter Oak." 109. 

138. Tell how the Connecticut people resisted Governor 

Fletcher, at Hartford. . 110. 

139. Give an account of the charter of Rhode Island. 

111-112. 

140. What have you to say about discontent in New Jer- 

sey? 113. 

141. What can you tell about a division of New Jersey, and 

changes in its government? 114. 

142. What have you to say about Delaware? 115, 116. 

143. What have you to say about the government and pros- 

perity of Pennsylvania? 115-11(J. 

144. What can you tell about Penn's troubles? 116. 

145. What have you to say about the boundary between 

Pennsylvania and Maryland? 116. 

146. What can you tell about a form of government for the 

Carolinas, and a revolution? 117. 

147. What have you to say about a rapacious and dishonest 

government in Carolina? 117. 

148. What can you tell about the Carolinas and their final 

separation? 118,121. 

149. What can you tell about settlers in North Carolina ? 

118. 

150. Give an account of a massacre by Indians in North 

Carolina. 119. 

151. Tell about troubles between South Carolina and the 

Spaniards in Florida. 119-120. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 189 

152. Give an account of war by South Carolina against 

Indians in Georgia and Florida. 120. 

153. What have you to say about an invasion of Charleston 

harbor? 120. 

154. Tell about a confederation of Southern Indians. 120. 

155. What have you to say about the Proprietors of the 

Carolinas, and a rebellion? 121. 

156. What can you tell about a change of government in 

the Carolinas? 121. 

157. What have you to say about settlers in Georgia? 122. 

158. Give an account of hostilities between Georgians and 

Spaniards. 123. 

159. Tell about war made by Oglethorpe on the Spaniards 

in Florida, and retaliation. 123-125. 

160. What have you to say about the condition of Georgia, 

and a change in its government ? 125. 

A Retrospect. 

161. What have you to say about the plantation and nation- 

alities of the American colonies? 126-127. 

162. Give an account of the characteristics of the inhabi- 

tants of the several colonies. 126-128. 

163. What were the chief pursuits of the colonists? 128. 

164. What have you to say about the restrictive policy of 

Great Britain in the colonies? 128. 

165. What have you to say about education and books? 

129. 

The Strife for Power. 

166. What have you to say about the causes of strife be- 

tween the English and French in America? 129- 
131. 

167. Give an outline of the French and Indian War. 131- 

147. 

168. What have you to say about the Ohio Company ? 

131. 



190 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

169. What can you tell about the mission of George Wash- 

ington to French posts? 131. 

170. What have you to say about an expedition against the 

French ? 182. 

171. What have you to tell about events at the Great Mead- 

ows and Fort Necessity? 132. 

172. What can you tell about a convention at Albany, and 

a plan for colonial union? 122-133, 

173. What have you to say about Braddock, and a plan of 

campaign ? 133. 

174. What can you tell about an expedition against the 

French in Acadia or Nova Scotia? 133-134. 

175. Tell about Braddock's expedition against Fort Du 

Quesne. 134. 
170. What have you to say about Braddock and Washing- 
ton? 135. 

177. Give an account of the death and burial of Braddock. 

135-136. 

178. Give an account of Shirley's expedition against forts 

on Lake Ontario. 136. 

179. (iive an account of Johnson's expedition against the 

forts on Lake Ghamplain, and the battle at Lake 
George. 136, 
1<S0. What have you to say about England's declaration of 
war against France, and the British commanders 
sent to America ? 137. 

181. Tell about the movements of Abercrombie, and the 

cause of delay, 137, 

182. What can you say about the capture of Oswego in 

1756? 137-138. 

183. Why did Loudon abandon all expeditions in 1756 ? 

138. 

184. What have you to say about the Indians, and their 

fate at Kittanning ? 138, 

180. What have you to remark about Lord Loudon? 138- 

139, 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 191 

ISG. Give an account of the capture of Fort William Henry, 
and massacre there. 139. 

187. Why was the attempt to capture Louisi)urg aban- 

doned? 139. 

188. Give an account of the capture of Louisburg in 1758. 

140. 

189. What have you to say about Abercrombie's expedition 

against Ticonderoga? 140. 

190. What can you tell about the capture of Fort Fronte- 

nac? 140-141. 

191. What have you to say about an expedition against 

Fort Du Quesne, and its capture? 141. 

192. What have you to remark about the result of the cam- 

paign of 1758? 141. 

193. What preparations were made for capturing Canada ? 

142. 

194. Can you give an account of Amherst's expedition 

on Lake Champlain ? 142. 

195. What can you tell about an expedition against Fort 

Niagara, and its result ? 

196. Give an account of Wolfe's campaign against Quebec, 

in 1759. 143-145. 

197. Give an account of the battle at and capture of Que- 

bec. 145. 

198. What have you to say about an attempt of the French 

to retake Quebec ? 146. 

199. What can you tell about the first conquest of Canada 

by the English? 146. 

200. Give an account of Pontiac and his conspiracy. 147. 

201. What advantage to the colonists was the French and 

Indian War? 147. 

The Strife for Freedom, or the Revolution. 

202. What were the chief causes of the old war for inde- 

pendence? 151-152. 

203. Define immediate causes. 152. 



102 LfVE qUESTTONS. 

-J04. AVhat have you to say about taxes, and especially the 

Stamp Tax and its results? 152. 
205. What have you to say about resistance to the Stamj) 

Act? 158. 
2(1(1. What was the character of the stani})s, and how were 

they to be ])ut to use ? 152-158. 
2(17. Tell about a "■ Stamp Act Congress." 153. 

208. What can you tell about Patrick Henry's opposition 

to British taxation? 158. 

209. What can you tell about the non-importation agree- 

ments, and their causes? 154. 

210. Why were soldiers sent to Boston in 17(iS? 155. 

211. What can you tell about the "Boston Massacre"? 

155. 

212. By what tax did the British Parliament assert its right 

to tax the Americans? 155. 
218. What have you to say about the North Carolina 

''Regulators"? 15(). 
214. What can you tell about an attack on a British vessel 

in Narraganset Bay? 150. 
215' ^V\vdt have you to observe on Lord North's plan to 

lay a tax that would suit the Americans, and the 

result? 15()-15S. 
21(), Give an account of the destruction of tea in Boston 

Harbor. 15S. 

217. What can you tell about a punishment of the Bos- 

ton ians? 15S. 

218. ^Vhat can you say about desires for union, and the 

first Continental Congress? 15J). 

219. What did the first Continental Congress do? 159- 

160. 

220. What preparations were made for war? 101. 

221. When and where was the first independent govern- 

ment in America formed? 101. 

222. How did the King and his ministers refuse sound ad- 

vice? 101. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 193 

228. What have you to say about British troops in Boston, 
and their expedition to Lexington and Concord ? 
162. 

224. What were the effects of the skirmishes at Lexington 

and Concord? 162. 

225. Give an account of the capture of Ticonderoga, in 

1775. 163. 
22(). What did Massachusetts do? 163. 

227. What can you tell about the Battle of Bunker's Hill? 

163-164. 

228. What can you tell about Patrick Henry and Governor 

Dunmore ? 165. 

229. What was done in the Carolinas and in Georgia, in 

1775? 165. 

230. What was the ruling sentiment of the second Conti- 

nental Congress and the people? and what did the 
Congress do? 165. 

231. When and where did Washington take possession of 

the Continental Army? 165. 

232. What can you tell about an expedition against Can- 

ada? 165-166. 

233. What have you to say about the capture of British 

posts in Canada? 166. 

234. Tell about the expedition of Arnold across the Wil- 

derness to Canada. 167. 

235. What can you tell about the siege of Quebec, in 1775 ? 

167. 

236. What can you say about Dunmore in Virginia, and the 

Culpepper men ? 168. 

237. What can you tell about Bills of Credit or Continental 

paper money ? 171. 

238. What can you tell about hiring German troops? 171. 

239. What have you to say about armed vessels, and Wash- 

ington besieging Boston? 171. 

240. Tell about the evacuation of Boston by the British. 

174. 

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194 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

241. What can you tell about the movements of Sir Henry 

Clinton, Washington, and Lee? 174. 

242. Tell about events in Charleston Harbor, in June, 

1776. 175. 

243. What have you to say about the Declaration of Inde- 

pendence? 176. 

244. What can you tell about movements near New York, 

and a battle on Long Island? 177-178. 

245. Give an account of the movements on New York 

Island. 178. 

246. What can you tell about the battle at White Plains, 

N. Y.? 178. 

247. What have you to say about the movements of Wash- 

ington after the battle at White Plains? 180. 

248. What can you tell about Fort Washington, and suffer- 

ing American prisoners? 180. 

249. Give an account of the flight of the Americans to the 

Delaware River, and of Congress to Baltimore. 
180. 

250. What can you tell about the British Army, and the 

battle at Trenton? 180-181. 

251. What powers did Congress confer upon Washington? 

181. 

252. What have you to say about Parliament and Congress ? 

182. 

253. What can you tell about agents of Congress in France? 

182. 

254. What can you tell about a plan for a national govern- 

ment ? 183. 

255. What have you to say about Washington and Corn- 

wallis at Trenton and Princeton ? 183. 

256. What have you to say about the Americans and British 

in New Jersey? 184. 

257. Give an account of marauding expeditions. 184. 

258. Give an account of exploits of Americans on Long 

Island and Rhode Island. 185. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 195 

259. What can you tell about a British plan of campaign 

for 1777 ? 185. 

260. What have you to say about Lafayette? 186. 

261. Give an account of the Battle of Brandywine. 186- 

187. 

262. What can you tell about military movements near 

Philadelphia? 187-188. 

263. Whither did Congress fly in 1777 ? 188. 

264. What can you tell about forts on the Delaware, and 

obstructions in the river? 188. 

265. What can you tell about a battle near Philadelphia? 

188. 

266. Where did the American Army encamp late in 1777? 

189. 

267. Give an account of Burgoyne's campaign. 186, 189- 

190. 

268. What was the result of Burgoyne's campaign ? 190. 

269. Give an account of an invasion of the Upper Mohawk 

region. 190-191. 

270. Tell about an expedition up the Hudson. 192. 

271. Tell about the battles near Saratoga, and the surrender 

of Burgoyne, and its effects. 192, 193. 

272. What can you tell about the American Army at Valley 

Forge ? 194. 

273. What can you tell about a treaty of alliance in 1778 ? 

194-195. 

274. What can you tell about peace messengers from En- 

gland, and their proposition ? 195. 

275. What can you tell about the British Army in Phila- 

delphia? 195. 

276. What can you say about a chase of the British, and a 

battle in New Jersey? 195-196. 

277. Give an account of the doings of a French fleet. 196. 

278. What can you tell of a battle on Rhode Island ? 197. 

279. Give an account of Indian and Tory raids in the year 

1778. 197-198. 



196 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

280. What can you tell about an invasion of (reorgia in 

1778? 1!)8. 

281. What have you to say about American finances in 

1777? 1!)8. 

282. What <^an you tell about the war in Oeorgia? VM)- 

20(1. 

283. What can you tell about the movements of the I'ritish 

and Americans in (leorgia and South Cnrolina? 
200-201. 

284. What can you tell about marauding i)arties? 201. 

285. Give an account of victories on the Hudson. 201- 

202. 
28(). What happened in the Penobscot River? 202. 

287. What have you to say about events in the West? 202- 

2o:{. 

288. Tell about chastising the Indians in New York. 203. 

289. (}ive an account of the siege of Savannah. 20l)-204. 
2!)0. What news made the British leave Rhode Island? 204. 
2!)1. Give an account of American naval operations. 205- 

20(1. 

292. What can you tell about John Paul |ones? 205-20(1. 

293. Give an account of the movements of British Armies. 

207. 

294. What can you tell al)out the siege of Charleston? 

207-208. 

295. What have you to remark about affairs in the South? 

210. 

296. What have you to say about partisan soldiers in the 

South? 211. 

297. Give an account of a battle near Camden. 211. 
2!)8. What was the effect of Cornwallis's conduct in South 

Carolina? 212. 

299. Give an account of events in Western Carolina. 

212, 2P5. 

300. Tell about military movements in New Jersey in 1780. 

213. 



HIS TORY OF THE UN I TE D S TA TE S. 197 

801. What have you to say about French troops? 214. 
302. Give an account of Arnold's treason. 214, 215. 
'MV.l What have you to tell of a mutiny and patriotism ? 
216-217. 

304. What can you tell about the action of Congress in 

meeting the wants of discontented soldiers? 217. 

305. What have you to say about Arnold in Virginia? 218. 
30(1. What can you tell about General Greene in the 

South? 218. 

307. Give an account of the Battle of the Cowpens. 210. 

308. Tell about the chase of Greene by Cornwallis. 

219-220. 

309. What can you tell about a battle in North Carolina? 

220. 

310. Give an account of Greene's battle with Rawdon. 221 . 

311. What have you to say about the capture of British 

posts? 221. 

312. What can you tell about Greene in Western Caro- 

olina? 221-222. 

313. What have you to say about the Battle of Eutaw 

Springs, and other military events in South Caro- 
lina? 222-223. 

314. What can you tell about a British officer in Marion's 

camp ? 223. 

315. Give an account of Cornwallis in Virginia. 223-224. 

316. What have you to say about Arnold's crimes in New 

England ? 224. 

317. Give an account of the siege of Yorktown and sur- 

render of Cornwallis, and its effects. 225-226. 

318. Can you tell about the effect of the news of the sur- 

render of Cornwallis in Philadelphia? 226-227. 

319. Tell of military operations in the South after the sur- 

render of Cornwallis. 228. 

320. What can you tell about preparations for peace ? 228. 

321. Where was the last blood in the war for independence 

shed ? 229. 

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198 Tj I VE q UESTTONS. 

322. What liave you to tell about treaties for peace, and of 

seditious movements at Newburgh ? 229. 

323. Tell about a change of rulers at New York. 229- 

230. 

324. Give an account of the retirement of Washington 

from military service. 230. 

325. What association was formed by the officers of the 

Revolution ? 230. 
32G. What have you to say about the Aj'ticles of Confcdera- 
tioji and the National Constitution ? 

327. What have you to remark about the government under 

the National Constitution? 

The Nation, or Union of States. 

328. Tell ab^ut the inauguration of Washington, and the 

organization of the new government. 239-241. 

329. Tell about the various operations of government. 

240-241. 

330. What can you tell about a mint, a national bank, 

the seat of the national government, and a new 
territory? 24^. 

331. What have you to say ^bout American political parties 

and the French ? 243. 

332. Give an account of the Whisky Insurrection and 

Jay's Treaty. 243-244. 

333. What have you to say about Algerine pirates and the 

beginning of the United States Navy? 244. 

334. What have you to remark about Washington's Fare- 

well Address, and his retirement from office. 245. 

335. What have you to tell of President Adams and trouble 

with France ? 241-240. 

336. What have you to say about the national capital ? 

247. 

337. What have you to say about President Jefferson and 

his administration, and the purchase of a vast ter- 
ritory? 247-248. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 199 

338. Tell about war with African sea robbers. 249. 

339. What can you tell of Hamilton and Burr, and Burr's 

Western scheme ? 250. 

340. What can you tell about navigation by steam? 251. 

341. What have you to say about events in Europe? 251. 

342. What have you to say about the Right of Search and 

its practical operation in 1807? 252. 

343. Give an account of British Orders and French De- 

crees and the consequences. 252-253. 

344. What can you tell of an Embargo Act ? 253. 

345. What have you to say about President Madison? 253. 
340. Give an account of trouble with the British. 254. 

347. Tell about troubles with British and Indians. 255. 

348. What have you to say about a Declaration of War? 

255. 

349. What preparations were made for war? 257. 

350. What events led to the surrender of Detroit ? 257- 

258. 

351. Tell about an Invasion of Canada on the Niagara 

frontier. 258. 

352. Give an account of Naval Operations in 1812. 

353. How were the belligerent armies disposed ? 2G0. 

354. What can you tell about events in the Northwest ? 

261-262. 

355. Give an account of events at the River Raison, Fort 

Meigs, and Fort Stephenson. 261-262. 

356. What can you tell about events on Lake Erie? 263. 

357. Give an account of Harrison's Army in Canada. 263- 

264. 

358. What can you tell about events on the St. Lawrence 

and Lake Ontario borders, and on the Lake ? 264, 
265. 

359. What events occured on the Niagara Frontier and 

near Hamilton in Canada? 365. 

360. Give an account of Wilkinson's expedition against 

Montreal. 265. 



200 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

H(n. What can you tell about the American Army in North- 
ern New York? 2G(). 

3(1:^. What can you say about the desolation of the Niag- 
ara Frontier ? 2(1(1. 

863. (live an account of war with Southern Indians. 2()()- 
Zbt , 

HCA. Tell about events on the Ocean in 1813. 267. 

305. What account can you give of a ihitish marauder? 
208-261). 

;)06. lell about Porter's Long Cruise. 209. 

3()T. What can you tell about events in Europe? 270. 

308. What can you tell about events in northern New 
York ? 270. 

300. What have you to say about events on the Niagara 
Frontier in 1814? 270-271. 

370. Tell about Battles at and near Plattsburg. 271-272. 

371. What stirring events occured at and near Washington 

City in 1814? 272. 

372. Tell about events at and near Baltimore in 1814. 273. 

373. What did the British Blockaders do on the New Eng- 

land coasts ? 273. 

374. What occurred at Baltimore and vicinity, in 1814? 

273-274. 

375. Give an account of the Invasion of Louisiana and 

the Battle of New Orleans. 275. 
370. Give an account of events on the Ocean in 1814- 
1815. 275. 

377. lell about a Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, and 

War with Algiers. 276-277. 

378. What have you say about American Manufacturers? 

27!l. 

379. Give an account of events in Floida. 280. 

380. Tell about Debates on Slavery and the Missouri 

Compromise. 281, 

381. What is the " Monroe Doctrine?" 281. 

382. Tell about disposing of pirates. 281-282. 



// IS T ORY F T If !•: U NIT K D S T A T K S. 20 1 

!{SI}. (]ive an account of Lafayette's visit. 2H2. 

:i84. What have you to say about John (I. Adams's ad- 
ministration ? 2H'A. 

.'{85. Wliat liave you t(j remark al)()ut Internal Imjjrove- 
ments?. 'AH:\. 

'.WC). What have you to say al)out the '* American System ?" 
284. 

!>87. What have you to say about I'resident Jackson ? 28;"). 

.'>88. What have you to say about troubles in CJeorgia, and 
the United States Hank? 287-288. 

'.W.). (iive an account of troubles with Indians in the 
Northwest. 287. 

.'*!I0. What have y(ju to say about trouble in South ('aro- 
lina with Nullifiers? 287. 

){!)!. (live an account of war with Southern Indians. 288, 
289, 291. 

.'i92. What was Jackson's ijrincijjle of action with foreign 
governments? 289. 

'*)9*>. What can you tell about business and its troubles? 
290. 

Ii91. (live an account of disturbed peaceful relations be- 
tween the United States and Great Ihitain. 291. 

895. What have you to say about President Harrison ? 
298. 

89(5. What have you to remark about President Tyler and 
his administration ? 2!)4. 

897. Tell about troubles in Rhode Island. 294. 

898. What have you to say about Texas ? 295-290. 

8!I9. What can you tell about the electro-magnetic tele- 
graph ? 295. 
490. What have you to say about President Polk ? 290. 

401. (live an account of the beginning of the war with 

Mexico. 297. 

402. 4 ell about the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la 

Palma. 298. 
408. (Jive an account of a grand \)\dn of cam[)aign. 298. 



202 L I VK QUEST 10 NS. 

404. 'IV'II about Taylor and Wool's invasion of Mexico. 

21)1). 

405. What was done on the Mexican coast? 800. 

KKI. (live an account of Taylor's movements in Mexi(T), 
an(li>attle of J^uena Vista. MOO. 

M)7. What have you to say about events in New Mexico 
and California? iiOl. 

108. Give an account of Scott's invasion of Mexico. 802. 

lUi). What can you tell about Scott's \i(iorious march on 
the Mexican cajjilal ? 'MKl. 

410. (live an account of battles near the City of Mexico, 
and capture of the capital. 808-804. 

111. What can you tell about a treaty of i)eace with Mex- 
ico ? 804-805. 

412. What can you tell about the discovery of gold in Cali- 
fornia? 805. 

418. What can you say about the admission of new States 
into the Union ? 805. 

414. W hat have you to say about President 4'aylor? .'>05- 

;;o(;. 

415. What have you to say about California? 80(1-807. 
41(1. llow was the agitation of the slave (piestion again 

aroused ? 807. 

417. \V4iat can you tell about five acts groui)ed, and known 

as the " Omnibus Dill " ? 807-:50S. 

418. What have you to remark about the b\igitive Slave 

Law? 808. 

110. How came Millard iMlhnore to be President of the 
United States? .808. 

120. What States were admitted during iMllmore's admin- 
istration ? 808. 

421. (live an account of the Mormons. 808. 

'122. 4V'll about expected troubles with Spain and (ireat 
Britain, during iMllmore's administration.. 80!). 

128. What can you say about an expedition to Ja])an? 
80!). 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 203 

424. What remarkable voyage took place during Plllmore's 

administration ? 310. 

425. What have you to say about President Pierce and 

explorations? 311. 
420. What routes of travel were opened during Pierce's 

administration ? 311. 
427. (rive an account of troubles in Kansas. 312. 
42<S. What trouble with foreign nations was expected, and 

why? 312. 

429. Tell about the ''Ostend Manifesto." 313. 

The Civil War* and the Social Revolution. 

430. What have you to say about Buchanan and his admin- 

istration ? 31!). 

431. Tell about a renewal of the slave question. 311>. 

432. What have you to say about the Mormons and the 

Republican party ? 319. 

433. What have you to say about John Brown's raid ? 319. 

434. Give an account of movements toward civil war. 320. 

435. What have you to say about secession ordinances and 

a Confederate Ciovernment? 320-321. 
430. What did the Confederates do? 321. 

437. What have you to say about President Lincoln ? 321. 

438. (iive an account of events at Fort Sumter, and what 

followed. 322. 

439. Give an account of hostile movements in Virginia. 

323. 

440. What did Congress do? 344. 

441. What can you tell about military movements in Vir- 

ginia, Missouri, and South Carolina? 325. 

442. What can you tell about the capture of Confederate 

ambassadors, and England's temper? 325. 

443. What can you tell about events in Virginia, North 

Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas? 326-327. 

444. Give an account of the Merrimac and Monitor. 327. 

445. Tell about a general movement of troops. 328. 



2f) i /> / r /'; V V ]<: s r i o n s. 

11(5. VVhal can yon Icll about haMlcsat Sliiloh, Ishiiul No. 

10, and I'orl INilaski ? :;L^S. 
ii7. Ci'w/r an accounl of o])cia(i()ns in Mississi])j)i and 

Louisiana. .*{-JI*. 
I IH. \\ lial can you say ahoiil niovfini'nls in Kentucky? 

111*. (li\can at coinil of a general movcnicnl a^^ainst Kich- 

luond. ."l.'KI. 
150. Tell about inovciucnts in the Shenandoah Valley. 

4r> I . ( I ive an acioinit of Lee's invasion ol Mainland. .'{.'Ili. 
152. What (an )()U tell about llarper's l'"erry and An- 

tictam? i).'!.'). 
-15:;. Tell what I'.urnside did. :\X\. 
451. Tell al)out evi-nts at Murlreesboio'. 'XV.l. 
455. What (an you tell al)out the- l'anan( ipalion ri()( la 

mat ion ? :;;;:> .'{.'M. 

15(1. (live an account ol" a battle at Chancellorsville, and 

I ,ee's second invasion of Maryland. ."{.'M. 
457. What (an )()U tell about events in Tennsylvania and 

North Carolina, in ISC.:;? ;;:!(;. 
45s. W hat o( ( tnred at Charleston and on the lower Mis- 
sissippi ? .'>i{(I. 
150. What (an you say about (Irant and the Mississii)pi 

Kiver? :;:iT. 

1(10. What can you tell about events in Northern (leorgia? 

:j:i7-:j:J8. 

-I(!l. What occurred in l^ast 4'ennessee and Arkansas? 

:::;s. 

-1(12. (ii\e an account of a raid in Indiana and ()hio, 

:;:{s. 

I(i;5. What have \()U to say about the Navy? 'V.\7 . 
KII. 4~ell ai)oul the draft riots in New York. :>))0. 
1(15. (live an ac( ount of movtanents in Mississippi and 

Louisiana. illO. 
1(1(1. What have you to say about I'orl Lillow? ."IIO. 



n I S T O R V O F T J I K I J N I T F. I) S T A T F S. 205 

4(17. Wliat have you to remark al)out tlic niovcmcnts of 
great armies ? !> 1()-)>41 . 

4l)<S. (live an account of l)altles in Virginia and (leorgia. 
'M\. 

4(51). What liave you to say al)out the position of Peters- 
burg? )>i-i. 

470. What can you tell about events in the Shenandoah 
Valley and in Maryland? 842. 

171. What have you to say about Farragut at Mobile? 
844. 

472. What can you tell about General Sheridan in the 
Shenandoah Valley? 844. 

47i». What can you tell about Engl ish-( 'on federate ('mis- 
ers? 844. 

174. 4'ell about the fate of the AlahaDia. 815. 

475. Can you give an account (jf military events in Vir- 
ginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina? 845. 

47(). What have you to say about Fort Fisher? 845. 

477. What have you to say about Sherman in the Caro- 
linas? 840. 

■I7S. What have you to say about (leneral Lee? 840. 

47!). (live an account of the closing events of the ('ivil 
War. 847. 

4S0. What have you to say of a national bereavement ? 847. 

481. What have you to say about Andrew Johnson and 
Jefferson Davis? 848. 

182. What have you to remark about the reorganization of 
the Union ? 849. 

488. What can you tell about Amendments to the (Jonsti- 
tution ? 84!). 

484. What was the amount of the National Debt at the 

close of the Civil War? 849. 

485. What was done to secure the rights of the freedmen ? 

851. 
48(j. What have you to remark about the President and 
Congress? 851. 

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206 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

487. What have you to say about "Reconstruction" Acts? 

351. 

488. Tell about the impeachment of President Johnson. 

351. 

489. What can you tell about the Atlantic cable ? And 

Alaska? 352. 

490. What have you to say about President Grant ? 353. 

491. What can you tell about the final reorganization and 

restoration of the Union ? 353. 

492. What have you to say about an international treaty, 

a tribunal, and award ? 354. 

493. What have you to remark about troubles in the South, 

and the Modoc Indians ? 355. 

494. Give an account of the Centennial Exhibition at Phila- 

delphia. 355. 

495. When was Colorado admitted as a State? 355. 

496. What was the result of the Presidential election in 

1876? 355. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 207 



Period I. 

Terminating in 1492. 



o 



Q 

<! 

ft 



p^ 
o 

H 
I— I 



r Ancient Inhabitants. 



Theories of the First 
Peopling of the 
Continent. 



^ Savage Legends. 
Shepherd-kings. 
Atlantic Theory. 
Jews, Phoenicians, 

ginians. 
The General Belief. 



and Cartha- 



Mounds and Mound- f Contents and Uses of Mounds. 
Builders. \ The Mound-Builders. 



Early Explorers. 



The Indian Races. 



Northmen. 

Welsh. 

Result of their Discoveries. 



Religion. 

Moral Qualities. 

Physical Characteristics. 

Government. 

Language. 

Dress. 

Dwellings. 

Household Furniture. 

Occupations. 

Weapons and Lnplements. 

Commerce. 

Amusements. 

The Eiffht Families. 



The Aztecs. 



208 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



o 

m 



o 

H 

< 

O 

;^ 



Period II. 

1492-1607. 



OK>>«><00 

^ The Middle Ages. 

Revival of Geographical Knowledge. 
The India Trade. 

First Voyage of Columbus. 
Subsequent Voyages of Columbus. 

Ojeda. 



Spanish. 



French. 



Dutch. 



English. < 



I 



Explorations on the 
Continent. 



I ^ 



Balboa. 

Conquest of Mexico. 

De Leon. 
De Narvaez. 
De Soto. 



Expeditions on the 

Coast. 

The Cabots. 

Frobisher. 

Sir Francis Drake. 

Sir Humphre}^ Gilbert. 



Vespucius. 
Magellan. 
Coronado. 
Alareon. 



Sir Walter Raleigh. 

Bartholomew Gosnold. 
Martin Prinir. 



His Explorers. 
First Colony. 
Second Colony. 
Results. 



Governmental. 



Religious. 



Individuals. 



r Verrazzano. 

Cartier. 
-j Roberval. 

De la Roche. 
[ De Monts. 

Huguenots. 

Jesuits. 

Marquette. 
( Champlain. 
[ La Salle. 



Henry Hudson. 
Trading Houses. 
West India Company. 



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Period III. 



1607-1775. 



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The Claims of Various Nations. 

Commerce with England. 
James's Patent. 
Government of tlie Colonies. 



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1. 

Virginia. 



The Founders of the Colony. 
The Voyage from England. 
The Settlement of Jamestown. 
The First Summer in Jamestown. 
Smith's First Explorations. 
Second Immigration to the Colony. 
Smith's Explorations in 1G08. 
Smith made President. 
Change of Charter. 
Winter of 1G09 and 1610. 

Arrival of Lord Delaware. 

Dale and Gates Deputy Governors. 

The Second Change of Charter. 

Pocahontas. 

Captain Argall, Deputy Governor. 

Yeardley's Administration. 

The Prosperity of the Colony. 

The Constitution. 

Negro Slavery. 

Indian Wars. 

Virginia a Pvoyal Province. 

Kestriction of Rights. 

Bacon's Rebellion. 

The Roval Governors. 
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PkkioI) 1 IT. — Cuidlnued. 

riyinoiith Company's First (-oloiiy. 
John Smith in New En<j;]aMd. 
Charter of 1620. 

'I'h(! rilniiiii Falli(M-s. 

Voyage to Amei'ica. 

Tlie Landing. 

Winter of 1()20 and 1021. 

Itc la lions with the Indians. 

(J rant of Land. 

(T(»vernment. 



2. 

Massachu- 
setts. 



Pl'jfDIOIlt/l 

Colony. 



Massa.cJiN- 

seflu Bai/ 

Colon}/. 



Mail 



3. 

New Hampshire. 



/ 'ndcr 



New York. 



Under 
English . 



I'lircdiase of 'i'crritory. 
First Settlers. 
The Charter. 
(Jrowth of th(! (\)lony. 
Relations wil li I iidians. 
Koligious In tolerance. 
Education. 
Salem Witchcraft. 
Industries. 
King I*hili[)'s War. 
Political Events from l(i4!i 
to IC.!)!. 

Settlement, 
(iorges and Mason. 
Claims of Massachusetts. 
Mason's (J rant. 
Scsttlement. 
Government. 
West India (vo.'s Grant. 
Permanent Settlement. 
(Jrowtli of the (/olony. 
Governor Kieft. 
Governor Stuyv(!sant. 
Siii'render t<» I )uke (»f ^'oi'k. 

(Jovernment of .lames II. 
Government of William 

and Mary. 
Royal Governors. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 211 



Period III. — Continued. 









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5. 

Maryland. 



Connecticut. 



Bhode Island. 



8. 
Delaware. 



9. 
New Jersey. 



10. 

North Carolina. 



11. 

South Carolina. 



Grant and Charter. 

Settlement. 

Clayborne'.s Insurrection. 

During the Commonwealth. 

From IGOO to the Revolution. 

The first Grant. 

r Settlement. 
Connecticut Colony. > Pequod War. 

( The Constitution. 

Saybrook Colony. 

New Haven Colony. 

Union of New England Colonies. 

Charter of Charles II. 

[ Roger Williams. 

I Providence Plantation. 

j Plantation of Rhode island. 

j The Charters. 

( Relations with Neighboring Colonies. 

C Settlement. 

I Under the Dutch. 

1 Conflicting Claims. 

[ Government. 

[ Grant to Berkeley and Carteret. 

1 Settlement. 

j Division of. 

[ Made a Royal Province. 

Grant and Charter. 
Albemarle Colony. 
Clarendon Colony. 
Government. 

Trouble between Projirictors and 
Colonists. 

f Carteret Colony. 

Government. 
-{ Growth of the Colony. 

Trouble with Spanish and Indians. 
[ Colonists and Proprietors. 



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LIVK QUESTIONS. 



I ' h: i; 1 () I ) III. — Co7itinuc(l. 



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Georgia. 


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CJrniit and (/liiift,(!r. 

'l'i-('iiliiu!iit of tlic Indiuiis. 

(ioverninent. 

I'cnn and Jjoi'd iJullinioro. 

Fouiidini; of. 

Settlement. 

Laws. 

The Weslcjys and Whitefield. 

()<i;l(!t]iorp(!. 

Made a lioyal Province. 



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Canada. 
Acadia. 
The West. 
Louisiana. 



Causes. 



King William's 
War. 



Queen Anne's 
War. 



('auso. 

,, , ,. , , ,,r ( French In v.isioii. 

l<iV(inlsol tne War. ] ., ,.,,.. ,. ,. 
( Knghsh Ketaliatic 

Peace of Kyswiclc. 

Kjvonts diirini'' the War. 



(huisc.s. 

Events in South ('arolina. 
I^iVents in New England. 
('ai)tiire of Port lioyal. 
Attempted Invasion of Canada. 
Treatv of Utrecht. 



f Bei;innin!j:; of Hostilities. 
° ^ { (^ai)tiire of Louisburti;. 

Peace of Aix-la-CHiapelle. 



War, 



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The Last 
Frencli War. 



Evr.nis of 
1755. 



1'kkiod 111. — Continued. 

( Cau.s(^ 

Preparations to ^ By the French, 

hold the Country. \ I5y the English. 

Beginning of Hostilities. 
Defensive Measures. 

Plans for the year. 
Braddock's Defeat. 
Expedition against Fort 

Niagara. 
Ex})(!dition against (Jrown 

Point. 
Taking of Acadia. 

Earl of Jjoudon. 
Loss of Oswego. 
Expedition against Louis- 
burg. 
Loss of Ft. William Henry. 

Pitt made Prime Minister. 
Caj)ture of Louisburg. 
Expedition against Ticon- 

deroga. 
Capture of Ft. Du C^uesne. 

[ Invasion of Canada. 
Cajiture of Ticonderoga 



Events of 
175f; and '57. 



Eveid.H of 
1758. 



Erent,s<f 

1750. 



and Niagara. 
( 'ajjture of (Quebec. 



Condition at 
Close of this Industries 



Treaty of Paris. 

I ndian Hostilities. I 

Territory. 
(Jovernments. 



Delaware. 
Cherokee. 
Pontiac. 



Period. 



Manners and (Justoms. 
Education. 



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LIVJ'J QUESTIONS. 



Period IV. 



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Taxation 

without 

Representation. 



II. 

Intercolonial 
Wars. 



III. 

Oppression by 
Great Britain. 






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ICf)!. 


Navigation 


1 ()(•.(). 


Acts. 


. ICfif). 




Woollen Goods. 


Acts of 


Iron. 

Molasses. 


Ti-iulo. 


Hats. 




All Enumerated Articles. 




Evasion by People. 




Writs of Assistance. 


lies lilts. 


Board of Commissicners. 




Seizure of Hancock's Vessel 




Runiiiig of the Gaspee. 



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'"^'"•"P -! Resu/ts. 



Act. 



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■peal . 



Colonial Congress. 
Non-importation. 



Tax on Tea, Lead, Glass, ( P'-^^^age. 

{ Results. 

Paper, and Paint. ( ,^^p^.^. 

Tax on Tea J East India Company's Tea. 
Alone. ( Reception of Tea Ships. 



r llomoved the French from the Frontiers. 
I Trained Onicers and Men for War. 
S Increased the National Debt of England. 
(^ Inclined France to Aid the Colonists. 



(Quartering Act. 

Troops Sent to Boston. 

jioston Massaci'e. 

Dissolving Legislative Assemblies. 

Hoston Port Hill. 



Results. 



I ("ominittee of Correspondence. 

] Sons of Liberty. 

] Provincial Congresses. 

[ Contuiental Congress. 



NoTK. — This subject is presented first topically, to aflFord a clear view of the 
causes, and then chronologically, for use in preparing a recitation. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 215 



Period IV. 



1775-1789. 



jJr^i'.O-o- 



Causes. 



External Taxes. 



External and Internal Taxes. 

f Navigation Acts. 
I Acts of Trade. 

"Writs of Assistance. 
Elfects of Intercolonial Wars. 
Internal Taxation. 
The Stamp Act. 

Keception of the Stamp Act in 



Virginia. 
Massachusetts. 
New York. 



Xon-importation. 

Colonial Congress of 1765. 

Kepeal of the Stamp Act. 

New Taxes and Impositions. 

Resistance by the Colonists. 

Oppression in Massachusetts. 

The Boston Massacre. 

Repeal of Duties. 

Burning of the Gaspee. 

Taxed Tea sent to America. 

Punishment of Massachusetts. 

The Colonies combine for Mutual Support. 

First Continental Congress (177-4). 

The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. 



Events of 
1775. 



r Battles of Lexington and Concord. 
The Rousing of the Country. 
Continental Congress. 
Battle of Bunker Hill. 
Washington takes Command. 
War in the South. 

Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. 
Capture of St. Johns and Montreal. 
Expedition against Quebec. 
The Hessians. 



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Period IV. — Continued. 



Events of 
1776. 



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Events of 

1777. 



Events of 
1778. 



Events of 
1779. 



Evacuation of Canada. 

Evacuation of Boston. 

Expedition against Charleston. 

Declaration of Independence. 

New York Fortified. 

Arrival of the British. 

Battle of Long Island. 

Battle of White Plains. 

Retreat to North Castle. 

Loss of Forts Washington and Lee. 

Retreat across New Jersey. 

Battle of Trenton. 

British Plan for Campaign. 

Loss of the Forts on Lake Champlain. 

Condition of Schuyler's Army. 

St. Leger's Expedition. 

Battle of Bennington. 

Schuyler Superseded by Gates. 

Battle of Bemis's Heights. 

Battle of Stillwater. 

Clinton's Passage up the Hudson. 

Battle of Princeton. 

Raiding Expeditions. 

Howe's Movements. 

Battle of the Brandywine. 

Further attempts to defend Philadelphia 

Battle of Germantown. 

Opening of the Delaware. 

Winter of 1777 and 1778. 
British Commissioners. 
Evacuation of Philadelphia. 
Massacres of Wyoming and Cherry Valley. 
Attempt to Recover Newport. 
Washington's Army. 
Expedition to Illinois. 

W.J f in tVio Cl.intli [Attack on Charleston. 
ai m tne boutll. | Lincoln's Attack on Savannah. 

Condition at the North. 

British Expeditions. { ¥,^t StTticut Coast. 

( Stony Point Retaken. 
American Expeditions.^ Sullivan's Chastisement of 

( the Indians. 






HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 217 



Period IV. — Continued. 



Events of , 
1780. ' 



South. 



North. 



Loss of Charleston. 

British Expeditions to Subdue the 

Country. 
Cornwallis in the South, 
Second Continental Army at the 

South. 
First Battle of Camden. 
Battle of King's Mountain. 

f Battle of Springfield. 
I Aid from the French. 
1 Arnold's Treason. 



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Events of 
1781. 



In the 

South. 



hi 
Virginia. 



Battle of Cowpens. 

Greene's Ketreat. 

Battle of Guilford Court-house. 

Capture of British Posts in the 

Interior. 
Keview of Greene's Campaign. 

Arrival of Cornwallis. 
Washington's Plans for the Cam- 
paign. 
Arnold sent to Connecticut. 
Situation of Cornwallis. 
Surrender of Cornwallis. 



The Dawn of Peace. 

Treaty of 1783. 

Disbanding of the Continental Army. 

Naval Warfare. 

Condition of the Country at Close of this Period. 

Government under the Articles of Confederation. 

Forming of the Constitution. 



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LIVE QUESTIONS. 



Period V. 



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Washington's 
Administration, 

1789-1797. 



Adams's 
Administration. 

1797-1801. 



Jefferson's 
Administration. 

1801-1809. 



Madison's 
Administration, 

1809-1817. 



1789-1878. 



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Fuiance. 

Indians. 

England. 

Spain. 

France. 



First Congress. 
Inauguration of Washington. 
First Cabinet. 
Affairs of the Country. 

Settlement of Domestic Difficuhies. 

( With 
Settlement of Foreign Affairs. . With 

(with 
Rise of Political Parties. 

Adams's Election. 

Trouble with France. 
Death of Washington. 
Removal of the Capital. 
Alien and Sedition Laws. 



Purchase of Louisiana. 
Aaron Burr. 
War with Tripoli. 

r,-, T ^ .,1-11 i The Right of Search. 

1 rouble with Eng- I 

^ - Destruction of Commt 
y The Embargo. 



land and France. 



Condition of the Country. 

1 Commercial Injuries. 
Impressment of Seamen. 
Indian Hostilities. 

Declaration of War. 



Events 
of 1812. 



Eveiiis 
of 1818. 



Invasion of Canada. 

Naval Warfare. 
Plan of Campaign, 



f West. 
] East. 



Army of 

the West. 



Massacre of French- 
town. 

Siege of Fort Meigs. 

Siege of Ft. Stephen- 
son. 

Perry's Victory. 

Battle of the Thames. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 219 



Period V. — ContiMied. 



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Madison's 
Administration, 

1809-1817. 
{Continned.) 



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Extents 
of 1813. 



Events 
of 1814. 



Army of the Centre. 
War with the Creeks. 
Naval Warfare. 
Ravages on the Coast. 

Campaign Battle of Chippewa. 
^ Battle of Lundy's 

Canadian t, ...i rr i r^u 

I Battle of Lake Cham- 
Frontier. [ plain. 

Ravages on r At Washington. 
the Coast. I At Baltimore. 

The Hartford Convention. 

War in f Capture of Pensacola. 
the South. \ Battle of N. Orleans. 

Treaty of Peace. 
Results of the War. 



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Monroe's 

Administration, 

1817-1825. 



Prosperity of the Country. 
Missouri Compromise. 
Purchase of Florida. 
The Monroe Doctrine. 



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" J. Q,. Adams's 
Administration, 

1825-1829. 



Jackson's 
Administration, 

1829-1837. 



Death of Adams and Jefferson. 
The Tariff. 

The United States Bank. 
Nullification. 

r Black Hawk War. 
j Indian Troubles. ^ Removal of the Cherokees. 
[ The Seminole War. 

[ The Specie Circular. 



Van Buren's 



f Panic of 1837. 
Administration, Relations with England. | ^-^f" ^fj"!°"- 

1«''7_1S41 V I Boundary of Maine. 



Harrison's 

and Tyler's 

Administrations , 

1841-1845. 



Finance. 
Annexation of Texas. 



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Period V. — Continued. 

Northwestern Boundary. 

Taylor at the f Palo Alto. 

Kio Grande. I Resaca de la Palma. 

Declaration of War, 

Plan of Campaign. 

Taylor South of the f Monterey. 

Rio Grande. ( Buena Vista. 

General Wool's Division. 
Army of the West. 



Polk's 

Administration, 

1845-1849. 



Taylor's and 

Fillmore's 

Administrations , 

1849-1858. 



Army under Scott. | Vera Cruz. 

;Cerro Gordo. 
Jalapa. 
Perote. 

Advance upon Mexico. 



Defences of 
Mexico. 



Contreras. 
San Antonio. 
Churubusco. 
Chapultepec. 
Molino del Rey. 
Casa Mata. 



Battles near the City. 

The Armistice. 

Capture of Chapultepec. 

Scott's Entry into Mexico. 

Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo. 
Wilmot Proviso. 
Discovery of Gold in California. 

I Admission of California. 
I Compromise Act. 
I Death of President Taylor. 
1 Filibustering. 



Pierce's 
Administration, 

1853-1857. 



f The Gadsden Purchase. 
Kansas-Nebraska Bill. 
Civil War in Kansas. 
Internal Improvements, 
Treaty with Japan. 
Political Parties. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 221 



Period Y. — Continued. 



Buchanan's 
Administration, 

1857-1S61. 



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The Dred Scott Decision. 

Personal Liberty Bills. 

John Brown's Attempt to Free the 

Slaves. 



r I State Sovereignty. 

Causes. J, 

Slaver}'. 



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Preli7nmary 
Events. 



Events 
of 1861. 



Events 
of 1862. 



Election of 1860. 
Secession of the Southern States. 
Firing on the Star of the West. 
Organization of the Confederate Gov- 
ernment. 
Condition of the Country. 



Firing on Fort Sumter. 
Effects of the Attack. 
Plan of the First Campaign. 
War in the Border States. 
Battle of Bull's Pvun. 
Effects of this Battle. 
War in West Virginia. 
War in Missouri. 
Battle of Wilson's Creek. 

E,Tr%v,+o ^, ii, /^ J. r Hatteras Inlet, 
vents on the Coast. < ^ ^ 

I Port Royal. 

Foreign Eelations. 

Plan of the ( Op^n'^S °^ ^^^ Mississippi. 
^ . ■< Coast Guard. 

Campaign. , , „. , , " " 

' ° I Advance on Richmond. 



A , , 1 r^ ( Mill Spring. 

Attack on Con- ^^ ^ ,„ , 

-> Henry and Donelson. 

federate Pvear. y guttle of Shiloh. 
Bragg's Invasion of Kentucky. 
luka and Corinth. 
Murfreesboro'. 
Advance Down the River 
Capture of New Orleans 
Attack on Vicksburg. 
Battle of Pea Ridge. 



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\ Memphis, 



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Period Y. — Continued. 



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Events 
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( North Carolina. 
War on the j South Carolina, Georgia, and 
CoastI ] Florida. 

The Merrimac and Monitor. 



Plan of Campaign. 

Siege of Yorktown. 

Battle of Williamsburg. 

Battle of Fair Oaks. 

Jackson in the Shenandoah Yal- 

ley. 
The Seven Days' Battle. 

Lee's Invasion f Against Pope, 
r i.1, AT iT, i I" Maryland. 

of the North. K, .., r * .- 



Advance 

toward 

Richmovd. 



y Battle of Antietam. 

Battle of Fredericksburg. 
Keview of the Year. 



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Emancipation Proclamatiou. 

i Advance upon Richmond. 
Coast Guard. 
Operations in the West. 

Advance r 

I Battle of Chancellorsville. 
upon a' , ^ . p , ^T , ^ 

' 1 Second Invasion of the North — Gettj'sburg. 

liichmond. I 



War in Capture of ^"icksburg. 

Ai.„ I ( Chickamauga. 

War in Tennessee. } Chattanooga. 



West 



(^ Siege of Knoxville. 



On the Coast- ] Charleston. 

{Indian Hostilities. 
Quantrell's Raid. 
The Draft Riot. 

Review of the Year. 



Events 
of 1864. 



Plan of Campaign. 

Sherman's Campaign. , ^^ , . .u c 

^ ° ' March to the Sea. 

Hood's Invasion of Tennessee. 



Capture of Atlanta. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 223 



Period Y. — Co7itinued. 



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Events 
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Overland. > r- , , tt i 

( Cold Harbor. 

cii J 1 r Defeat of Sigel and Hunter. 

Shenandoah * 

-^ Early's Raid. 

yalle^^ \ ^, . , 

"^ V oheridan. 

Advance from ) Petersburg. 

the Jarnes. \ Weldon Railroad. 

On the Coast. | Mobile. 

Destruction of the Alabama. 
Review of the Year. 

Capture of Wilmington. 
Sherman's Movements. 
Fall of Richmond. 
-i Surrender of Lee. 

Death of President Lincoln. 
Disbanding of the Army. 
Effects of the War. 



Johnson's 
Administration, 

1805-18C9. 



The President's Policy of Restoration. 
Congressional Policy of Reconstruction. 
Disagreement of President and Congress 
Impeachment of the President. 
Purchase of Alaska. 
Treaty with China. 
The French in Mexico. 



Grant's 
Administration, 

1869-1877. 



The Washington Treaty. 
Fifteenth Amendment. 

{The Indian Policy. 
Modoc War. 
Siou.x War. 

Difficulties in Louisiana and 8. Carolina. 

Financial Depression. 

The Presidential Election of 1876. 



Hayes's 
Administration, 

1877 . 



f Southern Policy. 

[ Civil Service Reform. 

[ The Silver Bill. 



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LIVE QUESTIONS. 



Period Y. — Continued. 



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Development 
of New States. 



Accessions of Territory 

Vermont. 

Maine. 



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Ohio. 



Early Settlers. 
Indian Troubles. 
Admission as a State. 



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Indiana. 

Illinois. < Settlement. Resources. 

Michigan. 

Wisconsin. 



Kentucky. 
Tennessee. 
Mississippi. 
Alabama, 

Louisiana. 

Missouri. 

Arkansas. 

Iowa. 

Minnesota. 

Kansas. 

Nebraska. 

Oregon. \ Claims. Settlement. 



Florida. 



Texas. I Fi 



rst Settlers. War with Mexico. 






California. 

Nevada. 
Colorado. 



Explorations. Settlement. 
Discovery of Gold. 
Increase of Population. 
Growth of San Francisco. 



West Virginia. 
The Territories. 
Area and Population of the United States. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 225 



Period Y. — Cortcluded. 



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Professional, and 



Public Schools. 
Bureau of Education, 
Universities, Colleges, 

Technical Schools. 
Newspapers. 
Writers. 
Statesmen 
Orators. 
Progress. \ Artists. 

Scientists. 

Telegraph. 

Telephone and Phonograph. 

Cotton-gin. 

Steamboats. 

Railroads. 

Gutta Percha. 

Labor-saving Machines. 
The Centennial Celebration. 



Great Inventions 




CHAPTER VIII. 



Theory and Practice of Teaching. 



1. Can you organize a school ? How? 

2. State what business you have with the directors before 

the commencement of the school, 
o. State what your important duties are on the first day 
of school. 

4, Should you try to make an impression upon your pupils 

the first day that you are the teacher ? 

5. Would you ask your pupils what they studied last term ? 
C. Would you have an examination the first week? 

7. Would you classify your pupils through examinations 

or from their standing the previous winter ? 

8. What do you mean by a normal classification ? 

9. Do you consider a proper classification essential ? 

Why? 

10. What advantages do we reap from proper classifications ? 

11. Would you attempt to grade your school? 

12. What do you mean by a graded school ? 

13. How soon would you adopt a programme ? 

14. Give the advantages of a programme. 

15. From what principles would you construct a pro- 

gramme ? 



THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING. 227 

16. What do you take as a basis for classification ? 

17. Would you choose the seats for your pupils-? 

18. What records would you keep of a week's work? 

19. Ought teachers to keep records of their schools, and 

present them to the Board of Directors at close of 
term ? 

20. Give an outline as how you would keep school records. 

21. How many rules would you establish the tirst day? 

22. How would you secure order? Cleanliness? Industry? 

23. Give your method of securing regular attendance. 

24. How would you punish tardiness? 

25. State the advantages of having as few classes as possible. 

26. Would you have plans of school organization prior to 

the commencement of your school ? 

27. Would you adopt any general rules to effect a tempo- 

rary organization? 

28. Is it wise or otherwise for a teacher to ask a mischievous 

or vicious pupil to do a favor for him ? 

29. What plan have you for the prevention of whispering? 

30. Would you strictly forbid whispering? Why? 

31. How would you punish a large girl who has been ob- 

stinate, disobedient, and saucy? 

32. How would you punish a large pupil who came to test 

your reins of government ? 

33. State for what offences you would inflict corporal pun- 

ishment. 

34. Should a knowledge of mental philosophy be required 

of every teacher ? Wliv ? 

35. Should a teacher be held responsible for the intellectual 

growth of his pupils ? Why ? 

36. Should the teacher be responsible for the moral and 

religious training of his pupils? Why? 

37. Distinguish between mind and intellect. 

38. What do you mean by the divisions of the intellect? 

39. Distinguish between capacity and susceptibility. 

40. What is memory ? Consciousness ? Reason ? 



228 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

41. State your method of cultivating memory in the school- 

room. 

42. State what faculties are the earliest developed in the 

child. 
48. What is the will ? Judgment ? Imagination ? 

44. Distinguish between recollection and memory. 

45. What do we mean by observation ? By the sensibil- 

ities? 

46. Should the ''pouring-in" process be ever exercised ? 

47. State your method of arousing and developing the fac- 

ulties of. the mind. 

48. Give your method of holding the attention of your 

pupils. 
41). Give your method of cultivating the power of associ- 
ation in your pupils. 

50. Would you strive to cultivate the imagination of your 

pupils? 

51. Give methods of cultivating the imagination; the taste. 

52. What physical exercise would you have to accompany 

mental labor? 

53. What should pupils be taught outside of the text-book? 

54. What punishments do you consider proper? What 

improper? 

55. What can you say concerning recesses? 

56. Give your opinion of the concert method of reciting. 

57. Distinguish between telling and teaching. 

58. Distinguish between teaching and instructing. 

59. State the arguments for and against the system of merit- 

marks. 

60. Would you resort to severe punishments in order that 

you may secure the preparation of lessons? Why? 

61. What chief motives have successfully served you as in- 

centives to study ? 

62. Is it right, expedient, and practical, to detain pupils 

after school to prepare or recite neglected lessons ? 

63. What is the ultimate object of school-government ? 



THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING. 229 

64. Why is it that some teachers govern easily, with- 

out resorting to severe punishments, while others 
cannot hold their authority without the use of the 
rod? 

65. What do you think of public examinations? 

66. What do we mean by the moral faculty? 

67. What do we mean by the science of education ? 

68. What is implied in human culture? 

69. What do we mean by the " natural order " of educating 

the faculties ? 

70. Show that telling is training. 

71. Show in what sense telli7ig is not training. 

72. Who was Horace Mann? Can you mention his works? 

What can you say of him as an educator? 

73. Who was Pestalozzi ? Who was Dr. Thomas Arnold ? 

74. In which did Y)x. Arnold reap the more renown, from 

his works or from his work in the school-room ? 

75. Give your plan of keeping pupils well employed. 

76. State what general exercises you would have in an un- 

graded school. 

77. What are ''object lessons?" Give your method of 

teaching object lessons. 

78. Give your method of teaching reading ; and what in- 

struction would you give in connection with reading 
lessons ? 

79. Distinguish between teaching and talking. 

80. State the advantages in reviewing preceding lessons, 

81. Distinguish between sensation and perception. 

82. What method have you for destroying the practice of 

falsehood ? 

83. Give your method of teaching the alphabet, and name 

the methods you would condemn. 

84. How can you best develop the expressive faculties ? 

85. Give your methods of developing the moral nature. 

86. What is the nature of conscience? 

87. What do you mean by moral sentiments? 

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230 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

88. How would you induce your pupils to practice kind- 

ness ? 

89. How do you destroy the practice of profanity? 

90. How do you control whispering? 

91. What qualifications are essential to a successful disci- 

plinarian ? What is discipline ? 

92. Should a teacher try to detect mischief in its incipi- 

ent form? 

93. Would you have pupils to inform upon each other? 

94. Name the chief objects of punishment. 

95. What would be a natural punishment for tardiness ? 

96. Should a teacher resort to such punishments as are 

intended to degrade a pupil? Why? 

97. Would you correct the awkward habits of a boy by 

hurting his feelings ? 

98. Why should the head be exempt from penal violence ? 

99. State your opinion of "dunce-caps" and "dunce- 

stools." 

100. Do you keep your whips in sight of the pupils ? 

101. Give your methods of cultivating truthfulness in your 

pupils. 

102. What is your method of destroying acts of hypocrisy 

and deception ? 

103. What is your method of bringing large refractory and 

vicious pupils under your discipline ? 

104. How would you teach your pupils courteous man- 

ners ? 

105. Distinguish between reputation and character. 

106. What evils result from carelessness ? 

107. What is your method of teaching spelling in primary 

schools? 

108. What use do you make of the blackboard in teaching 

reading? In teaching spelling? In teaching 
writing ? 

109. Why should ideas precede the use of language ? 

110. Do you have phonetic spelling? 



THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING. 231 

111. How would you present drawing to primary pupils? 

112. Why are written exercises in spelling preferable? 

113. Give your method of connecting writing with the 

reading lessons. 

114. What course have you adopted in teaching beginners 

to read ? 

115. In your opinion, how long ought a primary school be 

kept in session ? Why? 

116. Define a graded school. 

117. Give outline of a plan for a graded school, of 150 

pupils, from 5 to 15 years old. 

118. Give subjects and methods adapted to pupils from 6 

to 8 years of age. 

119. Give programme for forenoon in a common country 

school of 50 pupils and one teacher. 

120. Ought we to teach mental and written arithmetic in 

connection with each other ? Why ? 

121. Would you require your pupils to memorize the rules 

laid down in the text-books ? 

122. What qualifications ought a pupil to possess to enable 

him to use beneficially a text-book on Geography ? 
Grammar ? Arithmetic ? 

123. What powers of the mind does the science of arith- 

metic call into exercise when rightly taught ? 

124. State some of the objections to teaching mental arith- 

metic as an independent study. 

125. State your method of teaching grammar to a class of 

beginners on the subject. 

126. Why is it more normal to proceed from principles 

to rules and formulae, than to adopt the inverse 
order ? 

127. What powers of the mind does the science of gram- 

mar call into exercise when rightly taught ? 

128. Give an outline of a course of language lessons suit- 

able for a primary school. 

129. What powers of the mind does language develop? 



232 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

130. What employment of slate and blackboard would you 

make in presenting" language lessons to primary 
pupils ? 

131. At what age would you have your pupils study gram- 

mar? 

132. When would you introduce the writing of compo- 

sitions ? 

133. Would you have your pupils to confine themselves 

quite to the text-book in geography ? 

134. State the advantages of map-drawing. 

135. What use do you make of the globe, when do you in- 

troduce it, and what facts do you teach from it ? 

136. What are the most important objects of the study of 

geography ? 

137. Sketch the lives of five distinguished educators. 

138. State the reforms brought about by Pestalozzi. 

139. What can you say of Froebel and the early kinder- 

garten ? 

140. What can you say of Herbert Spencer as an educator? 

141. What can you say of Agassiz as an educator ? 

142. In what way does Prof. Huxley contribute to the 

cause of education ? 

143. Is it profitable to have occasional concert or simulta- 

neous reading by a class? 

144. Should map-drawing be required in all the stages of 

geographical study? 

145. What course in geography would you have in a gram- 

mar school ? 

146. Distinguish between seeing and observing, and how 

do you strengthen the latter ? 

147. How do you teach history, and what do you mean by 

outlines of history? 

148. What is the object of studying history, and how do 

you secure the object ? 

149. How would you connect composition with lessons in 

language ? 



THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING. 233 

150. Which do you deem the more important, the analysis 

of sentences or parsing, and why ? 

151. To what extent would you introduce the etymology 

of words ? 

152. Name some of the most important objects of the reci- 

tation. 

153. What do you mean by the development of ideas ? 

154. Distinguish between the teacher's intellectual qualifi- 

cations and professional qualifications. 

155. What means have you of inducing pupils to discharge 

their duties of their own accord ? 

156. Why should every answer be expressed in good lan- 

guage ? 

157. Name some of the common faults of teachers in con- 

ducting recitations. 

158. What attention do you give to vocal music ? 

159. Can you sing? If so, sing some appropriate piece. 

160. How much assistance should pupils have ? 

161. What are some of the advantages of having judicious 

criticism in a recitation ? 

162. Should the power of association be cultivated in a 

recitation ? 

163. How can you best exercise in your pupils the mem- 

ory ? Comparison ? Judgment ? 

164. What do you mean from the simple to the complex ? 

From the concrete to the abstract? From the 
known to the unknown ? 

165. Give your method of cultivating self-reliance in pupils. 

166. From what would you measure the length of a reci- 

tation ? 

167. Would you use the text-book while hearing a reci- 

tation ? 

168. Do you prefer topical recitations for advanced classes? 

169. Give your plan of having your pupils to go /<? and 

from the recitation ; plan of dismissing school at 
noon and evening. 

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234 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

170. Why should teachers be held responsible, to a certain 

extent, for the health of their pupils ? 

171. To what extent ought a teacher be held responsible 

for the proper ventilation of the school-room ? 

172. Give your method of ventilating the school-room. 

173. Why should parents and directors visit the school 

often ? 

174. Is it economy for the people to have old, inconvenient 

school-houses ? 

175. What is school economy ? Give examples. 

176. How far is a teacher held responsible for the habits 

of his pupils? 

177. When a teacher grows into a peevish and fretful tem- 

per, what effect has this condition on the school ? 

178. What do you mean by methods of instruction ? 

179. Who is responsible for the school furniture ? 

180. Can the directors hold the teacher responsible for any 

damage done the school-house in time of school ? 

181. Name the hydra of all bad conduct. 

182. What must a teacher possess to have proper control 

over his pupils ? 

183. Why does bad management in a school create evil 

habits and loose characters ? 

184. How can you best bring about promptness, cleanli- 

ness, order, and taste in your pupils? 

185. What incentives to proper conduct, superior to the 

fear of punishment, have you ? State your reasons. 

186. Give a synopsis of your speech on the first day of 

school. 

187. If you were building a school-house, where would you 

place it ? Give your reasons. 

188. If you were to build a school-house in a city, would 

you put it upon the street ? 

189. What gives stamina to the foundation of self-govern- 

ment in a community? 

190. Do you ever govern too much ? When ? 



THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING. 235 

191. How do you make your school- room an attractive 

place ? 

192. What effect has taste and cleanliness in the school- 

room upon indifferent pupils? 

193. Would you resort to artifices to secure promptness 

and regular attendance ? 

194. Are you noisy, boisterous, peevish, and autocratic in 

the school-room ? When ? 

195. Why would you have your school-grounds neatly and 

tastefully inclosed and ornamented ? 

196. If you were building a school-house to accommodate 

fifty pupils, state your dimensions, shape of build- 
ing, and its location. 

197. Would you have a general information class in your 

school ? 

198. What change of programme would you make on Fri- 

day afternoons ? 

199. Do you believe in a ''query-box?" Why? Why not? 

200. Ought teachers be thoroughly informed upon the sub- 

jects of proper location for school-buildings, right 
method of seating school-room furniture, black- 
boards, etc. ? 

201. What should be the height of seats and desks respect- 

ively, for a primary school ? 

202. What are the results of having desks too low ? Too 

high ? 

203. Why is it essential that pupils should rest their feet 

squarely upon the floor ? 

204. Should the warm and pure air be admitted near the 

floor? 

205. Give your method of expelling foul air from the 

school-room. 

206. Where would you place a thermometer in the school- 

room ? 

207. Why should our school-houses be provided with good 

thermometers ? 



236 LTVE QUESTIONS. \ 

208. What diseases are generated by foul air? 

209. What do you mean by heating a room by direct radi- 

ation ? 

210. State the number of cubic feet of air-space, necessary 

for each child in a primary school. 

211. State the difference between the number of cubic feet 

per hour of pure air, necessary to the health of an 
adult, and that of a six-year-old child. 

212. How do you prevent cold air-currents from striking 

your children ? 

213. Are parents alone responsible for tardiness and ab- 

sence of their children ? 

214. Has a teacher the right to punish a pupil who re- 

venged him (the teacher) after returning home, for 
a punishment inflicted while at school ? 

215. What journals on education have you read ? 

216. Did you ever read the school-law of Pennsylvania? 

217. What ought teachers do in order to have a longer 

term of employment ? 

218. How can the teachers best build up the profession ? 

219. Ought pupils uncontrollable and profane at home be 

permitted to attend our public schools ? 

220. When would you impose penalties in private, and 

when in the presence of the school ? 

221. Do you believe it right to suspend pupils ? 

222. When ought a pupil be expelled from school ? 

223. With what exercises do you open your school in the 

morning ? Do you read the Bible ? 

224. Do you govern by love or by fear ? 

225. What do you mean by moral suasion ? 

226. What is a school, and what are the scholars ? 




CHAPTER IX. 



Civil Government. 



1. Prior to the Revolution, state the kind of government 

that existed in the American Colonies. 

2. Name the three forms of Colonial government, and 

define each. • 

3. Name the Colonies, at the time of the Revolution, that 

were under Provincial governments. 

4. Name the Colonies under Charter governments at the 

time of the Revolution. 

5. Name the Colonies that were governed by Proprietaries 

at the commencement of the Revolution. 
G. State the time of the first-called general convention of 
the Colonies. 

7. Give the name of this convention. 

8. What important document did the first Continental 

Congress prepare? 

9. When did the second Continental Congress assemble ? 

10. At this convention what decisive measures were taken ? 

11. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? 

12. What powers did the Continental Congress assume ? 

13. State the nature of these powers. 

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238 LIVE QUESTIONS, 

14. How long did the Continental Congress continue to 

be the National Government ? 

15. What frame of government did the Continental Con 

gress adopt ? 

16. In what respects were the Articles of Confederation 

deficient ? 

17. When did the present Constitution go into effect ? 

18. What do we call the introductory part of the Consti- 

tution ? 

19. Did all the States adopt the Constitution at the same 

time ? 

20. Name the State last to adopt it. 

21. Why did not New York vote for Washington for presi- 

dent? 

22. What other States did not vote for Washington for 

president ? Why ? 

23. What is the prime object of the preamble ? 

24. By whom was the Constitution ordained and estab- 

lished ? 

25. Name the purposes that are stated in the preamble. 

26. Distinguish between the Articles of Confederation and 

the Constitution. 

27. From what did the Articles of Confederation emanate? 

28. From whom did the Constitution emanate ? 

29. Name and define the departments into which the 

government of the United States is divided. 

30. Distinguish between an Absolute government and the 

government of the United States. 

31. To what do the three main articles of the Constitution 

relate ? 

32. To what does Article I relate ? 

33. In whom is the legislative power vested ? 

34. Of what does the Congress of the United States 

consist ? 

35. Where are the legislative powers of the United 

States ? 



CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 231) 

36. State what Congress has power to do, what it is for- 

bidden to do, what the States cannot do, and what 
powers are reserved to the States respectively or to 
the people. 

37. State the advantage of dividing the legislative body 

into two branches. 

38. How often are the members of the House of Repre- 

sentatives chosen ? 
31). Give your reason for having a comparatively short 
term of service fixed for the House of Representa- 
tives. 

40. What is an elector ? When are the electors chosen ? 

41. How old must a Representative be, and how long must 

he have been a citizen of the United States? 

42. What is necessary concerning residence ? 

43. How are Representatives and direct taxes apportioned 

among the several States ? 

44. Who are meant by '' those bound to service for a term 

of years ? ' ' 

45. What is provided in regard to apprentices? 

46. What provision is made concerning the Indian ? 

47. What is census ? How often taken ? 

48. When thd whole number of free persons is thus ascer- 

tained, what must be added in order to determine 
the number to be represented ? 

49. What was meant by '' all other persons " in Clause III ? 

50. What repealed that part of Clause III relating to 

' ' other persons ? ' ' 

51. When was the first census to be taken? 

52. When was the census taken ? How often to be taken 

afterwards ? 

53. How was the enumeration to be made ? 

54. When was the last apportionment made ? 

55. By what census is the last apportionment determined ? 

56. State the ratio of representation under the last appor- 

tionment. 



240 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

57. Give the whole number of representatives under the 

apportionment in 1874. 

58. How are the vacancies in a representation of a State 

to be filled ? 

59. Of how many members did the first House of Repre- 

sentatives consist ? 

60. By whom is the Speaker of the House of Representa- 

tives chosen ? 

61. Why is it essential that the Speaker and other officers 

should be chosen by the House ? 

62. What is meant by impeachment ? 

63. What is the power of impeachment ? 

64. Does the House try impeachments ? 

65. State the advantage derived from dividing the legisla- 

tive body into two branches. 

66. State wherein the Senate differs from the House of 

Representatives. 

67. How do their terms of office differ? 

68. How are the Senators chosen ? 

69. Why is a comparatively long term of service fixed for 

the Senators? 

70. How and for how long are the Representatives chosen ? 

71. State how the vote of the Senators differ? from the vote 

of the Continental Congress. 

72. Name the classes into which the Senators are divided. 

73. Show how the different Senatorial classes are elected. 

74. What object had the framers of the Constitution in 

having one Senatorial class elected every two years ? 

75. State how the vacancies in the Senate are filled. 

76. Should a vacancy occur during the recess of the Legis- 

lature of the State, how shall it be filled ? 

77. How old must a Senator be, and how long must he 

have been a citizen of the United States ? 

78. What is required of a Senator in regard to residence ? 

79. State wherein the qualifications of a Senator differ from 

those of a Representative. 



CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 241 

80. Who is constituted president of the Senate ? 

81. When is the president of the Senate entitled to a 

vote? 

82. Why was not the Senate allowed to choose a presiding 

officer from its own members ? 

83. Why is there not the same danger in the House of 

Representatives ? 

84. How are the officers of the Senate chosen ? 

85. When does the Senate choose a president/;-^ tetnpore? 

86. What do you mean by a '' president /r^ tempore .?" 

87. Who has the sole power to try impeachments? 

88. Why could not impeachments be tried by the Supreme 

Court ? 

89. State in what respect the Senate deviates from its 

usual mode of proceeding, when sitting for the trial 
of impeachments. 

90. Why shall the Senate be on oath or affirmation during 

the trial of impeachments ? 

91. When the President of the United States is on trial, 

who presides in the Senate ? 

92. What porportion of the Senate is necessary to a con- 

viction ? 

93. Whv should not the verdict be unanimous, as in a 

trial by jury ? 

94. Why should not a bare majority be sufficient for con- 

viction ? 

95. If convicted, what sentence is passed in cases of im- 

peachment ? 

96. Those convicted of impeachment, are they liable to 

suffer no other punishment ? 

97. In whom is the. power of regulating the election of 

members of Congress vested ? 

98. Why is the place of choosing Senators not left to the 

discretion of Congress ? 

99. How often shall Congress assemble? On what day 

does Congress meet ? 

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242 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

100. If there had been no day fixed for the meeting of 

Congress, to what danger would we be exposed ? 

101. Who are to judge of the right of any one to a seat in 

either house ? 

102. Why has each house the exchisive right to judge of 

the qualifications of its members? 

103. What do you mean by a quorum ? 

104. Why is a quorum necessary for the transaction of 

business ? 

105. What constitutes a quorum in each house of Congress? 
lOG. State the power that a smaller number than a majority 

has. 

107. Why is the power to compel the attendance of absent 

members given to the minority of a legislative 
assembly ? 

108. Who determines the rules of procedure in Congress? 

109. How can each house enforce its rules? 

110. Who can call for the yeas and nays on any question ? 

111. How long can either house adjourn without the con- 

sent of the other? 

112. State how members pf Congress receive their com- 

pensation. 

113. State the objections that have been brought to bear con- 

cerning a compensation to members of Congress. 

114. What reason has been assigned for giving a compen- 

sation to members of Congress? 

115. When can members of Congress not be arrested? 

116. For what can a member of Congress be arrested? 

117. What is treason? What is felony, and how punished? 

118. What do you mean by '' breach of the peace?" 

119. Are Senators and Representatives eligible to any civil 

office under the authority of the United States? 
Why? 

120. If any person holding an office under the United 

States wishes to become a member of Congress, 
what must he do? 



CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 243 

121. Why is the power of originating bills for revenue con- 

fined to the House of Representatives? 

122. Has the Senate no power over a revenue bill ? 

123. When must a bill be presented to the President ? 

124. After both houses of Congress have passed a bill, does 

it become a law ? 

125. When does a bill become a law? 

126. If the President does not approve a bill, what must 

be done ? 

127. Where is the bill sent if not approved by the Presi- 

dent ? 

128. What is the meaning of the word veto? 

129. Where did we get the word veto and the custom of 

the "veto power?" 

130. State the object of vesting the President with the veto 

power. 

131. Does the President's veto cause the bill to be lost? 

132. When does a bill become a law without the President's 

signature ? 

133. Is there more than one instance where a bill becomes 

a law without the signature of the President ? 

134. Does the President's veto extend to questions of ad- 

journment ? 

135. In what case of joint resolutions has the President no 

veto power ? 

136. What is a tax ? How are taxes sometimes divided ? 

137. Distinguish between direct and indirect taxes. 

138. Define Imposts, Duties and Customs, Excises. 

139. What doubt exists concerning the meaning of Clause 

I, Section VIII ? 

140. Recite the common interpretation of Clause I, Sec- 

tion VIII. 

141. When Congress borrows money, whose credit is 

pledged ? 

142. State how commerce was regulated under the Con- 

federation. 



244 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

143. What do you mean by regulating commerce ? 

144. What is commerce ? Give some of the ways in which 

Congress may regulate commerce. 

145. What do you mean by naturalization ? 

146. Is the power to establish a rule of naturalization left 

with the States? 

147. How long must a person reside in the United States 

before he can be naturalized ? 

148. What is bankruptcy ? Define the term. 

149. Is there any uniform law of bankruptcy now existing 

in the United States? 

150. What would be the result if each State had the power 

to coin money? 

151. How long has a person the exclusive right to publish 

a book of which he is the author ? 

152. What is a copyright ? May a copyright be renewed ? 

153. Distinguish between a patent-right and copyright. 

154. What is piracy, and how punished ? 

155. When is an action said to have been done upon the 

''high seas?" 

156. With whom is the right of declaring war vested ? 

Why ? 

157. What are letters of marque and reprisal? 

158. What is a privateer, and what is his authority? 

159. Are letters of marque and reprisal ever granted in 

times of peace ? 

160. Who has power to raise and support armies, and how 

was it under the Articles of Confederation concern- 
ing ''to raise and support armies?" 

161. Why is Congress not allowed to make any appropri- 

ation for the support of the army for more than 
two years? 

162. Why is Congress entrusted with the power to call out 

the militia? 

163. In Clause XV, Section VIII, what do we infer from 

the use of the word ^^ provide ?^^ 



CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 245 

164. Why is it left to the States respectively to train the 

militia and appoint the officers? 

165. Why does Congress prescribe the organization and 

disciplining of the militia? 

166. Were any attempts made, prior to the Revolution, to 

prevent the importation of slaves into this country ? 

167. Name the earliest period fixed upon in the Constitu- 

tion for putting an end to the importation of slaves. 

168. When was the bill actually prohibiting importation 

passed ? 

169. Has a person any remedy who thinks himself illegally 

confined or imprisoned ? 

170. What is the meaning of the words habeas corpus ? 

171. How are the words habeas corpus used? 

172. When can Congress suspend the writ oi habeas corpus ? 

173. What is a bill of attainder ? 

174. State the objection to a bill of attainder. 

175. y^\\dX 2iY& ex post facto \d,\\'s>'> 

176. What is the operation of an ex post facto law? 

177. Is Congress permitted to pass ex post facto laws? 

178. Why are titles of nobility prohibited ? 

179. Why should no State be allowed to enter into any 

treaty, alliance, or confederation ? 

180. Why should no State be allowed to grant letters of 

marque and reprisal ? 

181. Why should no State be allowed to coin money? 

182. What is a legal tender? When was ''legal tender" 

first used ? 

183. When were bills of attainder, or ex post facto laws, 

passed in this country ? 

184. What must be done before any State can lay any im- 

posts or duties on imports or exports ? 

185. When may States engage in war? 

186. In whom is the executive power of the United States 

vested ? 

187. How are electors appointed ? 

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246 LIVE qUES T I O NS. 

188. Each State is entitled to how many electors? 

189. Can Senators and Representatives be electors? 

190. Where do the electors meet ? 

191. Describe the manner in which the electors choose a 

President, 

192. What provision is made to prevent inistake in regard 

to the result of the balloting by electors for Presi- 
dent ? 

193. What i)rovision is made to prevent fraud in the bal- 

loting for President by electors? 

194. Where and to whom do the electors send their report? 

195. What does the president of the Senate do with the 

electors' report ? 
190. Why should not a i)ers()n be elected who had a plu- 
rality of votes ? 

197. What is done in case no candidate has a majority of 

the whole number of votes? 

198. How is the House of Representatives limited in their 

choice ? 
1!)9. In choosing the President by the House, what is nec- 
essary to make a quorum of the House ? 

200. What Presidents were elected by the House? 

201. Should the House fail to make a choice for President 

before the 4th of March, who succeeds to the 
presidency ? 

202. In case any one of the candidates for Vice-president 

fails to get a majority of the whole number of elec- 
toral votes, what is done ? 

203. Is the day for choosing electors the same throughout 

the States, and when do they meet to give their 
votes ? 

204. State the (pialifications of the President. 

205. What temporary exception was made relative to birth 

concerning the presidency? 

206. Why was the exception relative to birth concerning 

the presidency made? 



CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 247 

207. If the President and Vice-president are removed 

through inability, death, or resignation, what is 
done? 

208. Recite the President's oath. What is his compen- 

sation ? 

209. Why should the command of the army and navy be 

entrusted to the President rather than Congress? 

210. In what case has the President no power of pardon ? 

211. Is the pardoning power ever useful? If so, when? 

212. State the limit of the President in making a treaty. 

213. What vote of the Senate confirms a treaty? 

214. What limitation is put upon the appointing power of 

the President ? 

215. Is there any provision made in the Constitution for 

the removal from office ? " 

21G. During the recess of the Senate, how are vacancies 
filled ? 

217. Why is it important that the President should com- 

municate through messages to Congress? 

218. What information does the President give in his mes- 

sages to Congress? 

219. What is the supreme law of the land ? 

220. What is the last duty required of the President ? 

221. Why are officers required to be commissioned? 

222. Who are liable to impeachment? 

223. Are members of Congress, military and naval officers, 

liable to impeachment ? 

224. Name the offences subject to impeachment. 

225. Where is the judicial power of the United States 

vested ? 
22C. State if the government has any discretion concerning 
the establishment of a Supreme Court. 

227. Is a Supreme Court absolutely essential ? 

228. Who establishes District Courts and Circuit Courts ? 

229. How many District Courts, and how many Circuit 

Courts, have been established ? 



248 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

230. Why is it considered better to appoint Judges of 

United States Courts for life, or during good be- 
havior, than for a term of years ? 

231. Are the Judges of United States Courts entirely irre- 

sponsible ? 
282. Why should the United States Courts have the power 
of judging in all cases arising under the Constitu- 
tion and Laws of the United States ? 

233. To what laws are foreign ministers amenable ? 

234. State the different cases which may be brought before 

the United States Courts. 

235. When is a State a party in suit ? 

236. Can a suit be brought against a State by a private 

citizen, and what change has been made in this 
direction'? 

237. Why was the Amendment, Article XI, adopted ? 

238. Name the kinds of jurisdiction exercised by the Su- 

preme Court. 

239. What do you mean by original and what by appellate 

jurisdiction ? 

240. What mode of trying crimes is authorized ? 

241. Are all crimes subject to trial by jury? What ex- 

ception ? 

242. How has the right of trial by jury ever been regarded 

in this country ? 

243. Where is a criminal tried ? 

244. In what does treason against the United States con- 

sist ? 

245. State what is necessary to convict a person of trea- 

son. 

246. Why is the testimony of two witnesses thought neces- 

sary in the charge of treason ? 

247. How is treason regarded by the government ? 

248. How is treason punished ? 

249. State the mode of punishment of treason, by the com- 

mon law of England. 



CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 249 

250. How is Congress limited in declaring the punishment 

of treason ? 

251. What do we mean by corruption of blood? 

252. What do we mean by an attainder of treason ? 

253. How far may Congress declare an estate forfeited ? 

254. A person charged with treason in any State, flees from 

justice, and found in another State; who has the 
right to claim him? 

255. How are new States admitted into the Union ? 

256. State the cases in which the power of admitting new 

States is denied to Congress. 

257. What power is given to Congress concerning the gov- 

ernment of Territories? 

258. What limitation is put upon the power of Congress 

over the Territories? 

259. What was the cause of inserting a limitation upon the 

power of Congress concerning the government of 
Territories ? 

260. What shall the United States guarantee to every State 

in this Union ? 

261. In what two ways may amendments be proposed ? 

262. Can Congress by itself propose amendments? How? 

263. When shall Congress call a convention for proposing 

amendments ? 

264. When does an amendment become a part of the Con- 

stitution? 

265. ^\vdX permanent limitation was made to the power of 

amendment ? 

266. Give an example in which the action of the State 

Government is necessary to the operations of the 
National Government. 

267. What was necessary for the establishment of the Con- 

stitution ? 

268. By how many of the States was it at first ratified ? 

269. Why did Rhode Island and North Carolina not ratify the 

Constitution at the time the other States ratified it ? 



250 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

270. When are offences in the militia tried by a court- 

martial ? 

271. Can a person who has been convicted or acquitted, 

be tried a second time for the same offence ? 

272. In all criminal prosecutions, what right shall the ac- 

cused enjoy? 

273. Can a person be obliged to testify against himself? 

274. Is a religious test required as a qualification to any 

office or public trust ? ♦ 

275. How large was the District of Columbia originally ? 

276. Is the District of Columbia at present ten miles square? 

277. When was the importation of slaves actually pro- 

hibited into the British Colonies ? 

278. What do we mean by bills of credit ? 

279. What is duty of tonnage ? 

280. How often may a President be re-elected ? 

281. Why was Washington not elected for a third term? 

282. What has been the effect of Washington's declination 

for a third term ? 

283. What has been done with the original clause of the 

Constitution, prescribing the proceedings to be 
taken to elect a President and Vice-president ? 

284. What is the history of the twelfth amendment ? 

285. When shall the Speaker of the House of Representa- 

tives act as President ? 

286. What is the salary of the President ? What of the 

Vice-president ? 

287. What executive departments have been established by 

Congress ? 

288. What is a reprieve ? Define the term reprieve. 

289. In what way are the recommendations of the Presi- 

dent made to Congress? 

290. Was the reading of written messages always the prac- 

tice ? 

291. How is the Supreme Court of the United States or- 

ganized ? 



CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 251 

292. Name the salary of the Chief Justice ; also of each as- 

sociate justice. 

293. In what way are recommendations of the President 

made, and what Presidents made their recommen- 
dation by addresses to Congress ? 

294. Why were the first ten amendments made ? 

295. When were the first ten amendments proposed, and 

when adopted ? 
29(3. How may the first ten amendments be regarded ? 

297. What is the history of the eleventh amendment ? 

298. What is the history of the thirteenth amendment ? 

299. When was the fourteenth article adopted ? 

300. Have all the Presidents been put into office as pre- 

scribed by the Constitution ? 

301. What are the provisions concerning the freedom of 

speech and of the press? Concerning religions? 
Concerning the right to bear arms? Concerning 
the rights of persons and property? Concerning 
"the payment of the Union war debt? Concern- 
ing the Confederate war debt ? 

302. What amendments to the Constitution made part of 

the reconstruction act? And in what manner? 

303. What is the sixteenth amendment, which is so anx- 

iously waited for ? 



252 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



Blackboard Exercises. 

Preamble. — This should be fully explained in one or two lessons. It 
would be well to write it out in full on the blackboard, and explain it, 
clause by clause, before proceeding to further consider the analysis of the 
Constitution. (See author's Analysis of Civil Government, p. 109.) 



Exercise No. 1. 

Departments. — Civil Government in the United States is administered 
through three several departments : 

I. f 1. House of Kepresentatives. 2 

Legislative. \ 2. Senate. 2 
, II. Executive. President United States. 53 
III. ( 1. Supreme Court. 65 

Judicial. I 2. Inferior Courts. Q5 



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I. Proportion. 5 



II. Apportionment. 



III. JiLlUlBlLITY. 



r 1. All free persons, excc]>t Indians, not 
I taxed. 

2. Limited Service. 

3. Three-fifths of all slaves. 5 

4. Conditional. 100 
\. Age, twenty-five years. 
2. Citizenship. 

-. 8. Inhabitancy. 4 

I 4. Oflficial disencumbrance. 22 

[ 5. Loyalty. 100 



IV. Term. 

V. By Whom Elected. 3 
VI. Electors. 3 
VII. How Elected. 15 
VIII. Vacancies. 6 



IX. Census. 



X. House Povters. 



1. When taken. 5 

2. How taken. 5 



{ \. Concurrent. 2 

L Lefiislative. ^ c, tj^ ^ ■ oo 
^ 12. Exclusive. 23 



2. Inquisitorial. *7 

( 1, House Oflicers. 7 
12. President U.S. 94 



3. Elective. 



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Exercise No. III. 
I. Ilow Composed. 8 

( 1- Age. 

I 2. Citizenship. 
II. Eligibility. \ 3. Inhabitancy. 10 

4. Official Disencumbrance. 22 

5. Loyalty. 100 

III. Term. 8 

IV. By Whom Chosen. 8 
V. How Chosen. 15 

VI. When Chosen. 8 

f 1. Expires Second Year. 
VII. How Classed. { 2. Expires Fourth Year. 
[ 3. Expires Sixth Year. 9 
( 1. Legislature. 
VIII. Vacancy. ^ g. State Executive. 9 

IX. Vote. 9 

f L Vice-president United States. 11 

X. Presiding Officer. ^ 2. President /jro ^lem^we. 12 
L Legislative. 2 

1. Appointments. 61 

2. Treaties. 61 



XL 

Senate Powers. 



2. Executive. 



3. Elective. 



1. Senate? Officers. 12 



\ 2. Vice-president U.S. 95 
4. Judicial. 13 



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Exercise No. IV. 

I. Membership. 17 
II. (Quorum. 17 

C L Keeping. 19 
I2. Publishing. 19 
IV. Yeas and Nays. 19 
V. Business Rules. 18 

r 1. Punishment. 18 
VI. Penalties. | 2. Expulsion. 18 

r f L Time 20 

I L Adjournynent. ^ ^ pj.^^^^ qq 

L Officer Created. 22 



VII. Prohibitions. 



2. 0« Members. 



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2. Emoluments in- 
creased. 22 



VIII. Official Oath. 81 
IX. Salaries. 21 



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Exercise No. V. 



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I. Finances. 



1. Resources. 



2. Disbursements. 



1. Foreio-n. 28 



1. Taxes, Duties, Imposts, 

Excises. 26 

2. Borrow Money. 27 

3. Territory. 76 

4. Other Property. 76 

1. United States Debts. 26 

2. Common Defence. 26 

3. General Welfare. 26 



II. Commerce. 



III. Commercial. 



IV. Penalties. 



V. Postal. 
yi. Patents and Copyrights 



2. Inter-State. 28 

3. Indian Tribes. 28 

1. Coin Money. 

f 1. Domestic. 30 

2. Value of Coin, i o -ci • o/-w 

^ 12. Foreign. 30 

3. Weights and Measures. 30 

4. Bankruptcies. 29 

( 1. U. S. Securities. 31 

1. Counterfeiting. | 2. u. S. Coin. 31 

f 1. Piracies. 35 

2. Crimes on High Seas. ^2 Felonies. 35 

3. International Otfences. 35 

4. Treason. 70 

f 1. Post-otRce. 32 
\ 2. Post-roads. 32 



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VII. War. 



1. Declaration. 36 

2. Marque and Ileprisal. 36 

3. Captures. 36 

4. Armies. 37 

5. Navy. 38 

6. Kules, — Land and Naval Forces. 39 

f ( 1. Organizing. 41 



7. Militia. 



1. Genei-al j 2. Arming. 41 

control. 1 3. Disciplining. 41 
[ 4. Governing. 41 
r 1. Laws of the Union. 40 

2. C'ay/m./l2.i,,3,„.,ections. 40 

forth, [g^ Invasions. 40 



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Exercise No. Y. — Continued. 

{1. Inferior Tribunals. 34 
2. Place of Trial. 63 
3. Eestrictions. 67 
IX. Naturalization. 29 

1. Government. 76 

2. Seat of Government. 42 
X. Territory. J 3. Public Works. 42 

4. Alienations. 76 

5. New States. 75 

1. Members of Congress. 15 

2. Presidential Electors. 55 



XI. vStates. 



1. Elections. 



2. State Recoi'ds. 



1. Method of Proving, 70 



I 2. Effect of Proof. 
3. State Imposts. 52 
Executive Vacancy. 57 

{1. President. 61 
2. Courts. 61 
3. Departments. 61 
Constitutional Amendments. 78 

1. Slave Trade. 44 

2. Abolition. 98 



70 



XII. 

XIII. 

XIV. 
XV. Slavery. 



XVI. General Law Making. 43 
1. Frequency. 16 
XVII. Meeting, ^o m-.... f 1. By the Constitution. 16 

2. By Law. 16 



2. Time. 



First Process. 



Second Process , 



Exercise No. VI. 

1. Action in Congress. 

2. Delivery to Executive. 

3. Executive Signature. 24 

1. Action in Congress. 

2. Delivery to Executive. 

3. Executive Veto. 

4. Kecord of Veto. 

5. Keconsideration. 

6. Approval by Congress. 

7. Voting. 

8. Kecord. 24 



256 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 

Exercise No. YI. — Continued. 



LAW MAKING. ' Third Process. 



f 1. Action in Congress, 

j 2. Delivery to Executive. 

3. Executive Neglect. 

4. Effect. 24 



OKDEKS, 

KESOLUTIONS, 

AND VOTES. 



f 1. Action in Congress. 

I 2. Delivery to Executive. 

1 3. Executive Veto. 

I 4. Subsequent Action. 25 



Exercise No. VII. 



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I. Habeas Corpus. 



1. Eebellion. 45 

2. Invasion. 45 
II. Direct Taxes. 47 

III. Export Duties. 48 



IV. Inter-state Commerce 



V. Public Money. 
VI. Nobility. 50 
VII. Penalties. 



1. Drawing 



1. Ports. 48 

2 Vessels. 48 

49 

2. Published Statement. 49 

3. For Armies. 37 

1. Bill of Attainder. 46 

2. Ex post facto law. 46 

3. Attainder of Treason. 70 



VIII. Foreign Slave Trade. 44, 78 



IX. Kepudiation. \ 



X. Freedom. 



r f\. Land Claims. 76 

1. Forbidden. \ 2. Contracts. 79 
i3. Public Debt. 101 

2. Enjoined. 102 

f 1. Speech. 

2. The Press. 

1. Civil. i o A VI 

3. Assemblage. 

[ 4. Bearing Arms. 83 
rl. Tests. 81 
2. Religious. } 2. Establishment. 83 
13. Exercise. 83 



CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 257 



Exercise No. VIII. 



I. Ineligibility. 



1. United States Officers. 22 

2. Congressmen. 54 

3. For Disloyalty. 101 



II. Foreign Patronage. 50 



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2. Other Emolument. 58 



[ 1. Conviction. 64 
IV. Impeachment. -i 2. Judgment. 14 



I 3. Further Liability. 14 



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-^ „ r 1. House. 5 

I, Kbpresentation. i ^ ^ ^^ 

12. Senate. 78 



^^ ^ ^ rl. Affirmative. 71,99 

II. Privileges oe Citizenship. < ^ ^^ . ^^ ' 

12. Negative. 99 

III. State Amitt. 71 

^^^ Tv-r o r 1. By Dismemberment. 71 

IV. New States. { ^ J' ^ . ^, 

12. By Junction. 71 



V. Election. 15 



^^-r ,^ rl. Officers. 41 

VI. Militia. ■{ r. r^ . . 

12. Training. 41 



VII. Federal Protection. 



1. Government. 77 

2. Insurrection. 77 

3. Domestic Violence. 



„^^^ _, r 1. From Justice. 73 

VIII. Fugitives. i ,, -^ o • h,.. 

I 2. From Service. 74 

-r^r T> f 1- Powers not Delegated. 92 

1 IX. Reservations, i^^., ^ .j^^ 

I 2. Rights not Enumerated, 91 



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Exercise No. X. 



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I. State Obligations. 



f 1. United States Constitution, 82 
I 2. Amendments. 78 



C 1. Constitution. 80 
II. SuPKEMACY OF UNITED \ 2. United States Laws. 80 
States Authority, j 3. Treaties. 80 

[ 4. Obligation of Judges. 80 



III. Official Oath. 



1. State Legislators. 81 

2. State Executives. 81 

3. State Judicial Officers. 81 



Exercise No. XL 



I. State Kelations. 61, 52 



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II. Commercial. 



III. War. 



IV. Penalties. 



1. Coining Money. 51 

2. Bills of Credit. 51 

3. Tender. 51 

4. Contract Obligations. 51 

1. Marque and Reprisal. 51 

2. War Preparations. 52 

3. Engagement in. 52 



f 1. Bill of Attainder. 51 
I 2. Ex post facto Law. 51 



V. Nobility. 51 



VL Duties. 



1. Tonnage. 52 

2. Imports and Exports. 52 

3. Produce of. 52 



VII. Slavery. 



1. Within the United States. 

2. In Territories. 97 



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Exercise No. XII. 



I. Domicile. 



f 1. In Peace. 85 



II. 



1 2. In War. 85 
Security. < 



1. Searches and Seizures. 86 

2. Warrants. 86 



III. Judicial. ■{ 



1. Indictment. 99 

2. Second Trial. 99 

3. Deprivation. 99 

[ 4. Private Property. 99 



1. Accusation. 88 

2. Jury Trial. 88 

3. Witnesses. 87, 88 
IV. Criminal Actions. - 4. Counsel. 88 

5. Bail. 90 

6. Fines. 90 

7. Punisliments. 90 



V. Civil Actions. 



1. Jury Trial. 89 

2. Second Trial. 89 



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yi. Treason. 



f 1. Levying War. 69 

1. Defind^on. | ^^ Adhesion to Enemies. 69 

r 1. Witnesses. 69 

2. Conviction. -<, ^ „ ^ . ^(~k 

I 2. Confession. 69 



Vll. Official 



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1. Arrest. 21 
Speech. 21 



Exercise No. XIII. 



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II. Term. 53 



III. Eligibility. 



1. Age, Thirty-five Years. 56 

2. Citizenship. 

8. Pvesidence. 56 



260 



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Exercise No. XIII. — Continued. 



IV. 

Election. 



1. Electors. 



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2. Number. 54 

' 1. Meeting. 
2. Voting. 
3. 3. Making Lists. 

Proceed- \ 4. Signing Lists. 



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4. 

In Con- 
gress. 



5. Certifying Lists. 

6. Transmitting Lists. 

7. Directing Lists. 
\. Joint Meeting. 



2. House of 
Eepresentatives. 



V. Oath or Office. 59 
VI. How Eemovable. 64 
VII. Salary. 58 



2. Opening Certificates. 

3. Counting Votes. 

4. Result. 

1. Quorum. 

2. Eligibility. 94 

3. Voting. \ 1- T^y «»""'• 

I 2. By States. 

4. Result. 94 



VIII. 

Powers 

AND 

Duties. 



1. Military. 



2. Civil. 



1. Army and Navy. 60 

2. Militia. 60 

1. Departments. 60 

2. Reprieves and Pardons. 60 

3. Treaties. 61 

!1. Diplomatic. 
2. Judicial. 
3. Others. 61 



4. Appoint- 
ments. 



[ 2. Special. 62 

5. Messages 63. 

{1. Convocation. 63 
2. Adjournment. 63 
3. Veto. 24, 25 

7. Reception. 63 

8. Executor of the Laws. 63 

9. Commissions. 63 






CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 261 

Exercise No. XIV. 

I. Eligibility. 96 

^^ ^ f 1. In Consjres^. 95 

II. Election. , ;, ^ q \ or^ 
1 2. In Senate. 95 



W -J III. Oath of Office. 81 

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^ (1. President of the Senate. 11 

Y. Powers AND Duties. < + .- tt a Kr7 o^i 

I 2. Acting President ot U.b. 57,94 



Exercise No. XY. 

^ ^^^ „ r 1. Supreme Court. Q5 

I. Where Yested. ^ ^ , i • n f «f^ 

t 2. Inferior Courts. 65 

-, TT A ■ ^ J I 1- President. 
1. How Appointed. , ^ ^, , _., 
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II. Judges. 



2. Oath of Office. 81 

3. Tenure of Office. 35 

4. How Kemovable. 64 

5. Salary. e5 

1. Limitation. QQ 



{I. jLiimiLaiiuij. uu 
2. Original. QQ, 67 
3. Appellate. 66, 67 




CHAPTER X. 



History of Pennsylvania. 



1. Who were the first inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and 

what can you say of their character ? 

2. When and where was the first church built in Pennsyl- 

vania? 

3. Where did the Swedes first settle ? 

4. What circumstance gave Delaware River its name, and 

what other names had been applied to it? 

5. Who was William Penn, and what did his father wish 

him to become ? 

6. Why did William Penn refuse to do the wish of his 

father ? 

7. What punishment did William Penn receive at the 

hands of his father for disobedience ? 

8. What brought harmony between Admiral Penn and his 

son William? 

9. When and whom did William Penn marry? 

10. When did William Penn visit Pennsylvania? 

11. Why was the territory on the Delaware given to Penn ? 

12. When was the charter of Pennsylvania signed? 

18. \^'"hen and where was the first court under Penn's char- 
ter convened ? 

14. Recite a portion of Penn's first letter to the Indians. 

15. What was Penn's first official act in Pennsylvania? 
IG. Tell how the name of Upland was changed. 

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HIS TOR r OF PENNS YL VA NIA. 263 

17. State when and how William Penn visited Philadel- 

phia. 

18. State how Penn named the streets of Philadelphia. 

19. Give date and place of the first Legislative Assembly 

in the Province of Pennsylvania. 

20. Mention the number of chapters contained in the Great 

Law which Penn prepared. 

21. What did Penn require felons, thieves, and vagrants to 

do while in prison ? 

22. What did Penn do towards erecting public schools? 
28. Where is Shackamaxon, and for what was it noted? 

24. Give date and place of the second Legislative Assem- 

bly in Pennsylvania. 

25. What can you tell of the history of witchcraft, and 

what remarkable case was tried, Penn presiding? 
2G. State how Penn endeared himself to the Indians. 

27. When did the Welsh come to Pennsylvania, and how 

were they received ? 

28. Give the history of the Quaker settlement of Pennsyl- 

vania. 
21). When did Fletcher become Governor of Pennsylvania, 
and how did he conduct his administration? 

30. State Penn's views of slavery. 

31. What words are on the Treaty Monument? 

32. How long was the first Constitution of Pennsylvania in 

force ? 

33. How long was the second Constitution of Pennsylvania 

in force? 

34. Who was the first mayor of Philadelphia ? 

35. When did the Episcopalians establish themselves in 

Pennsylvania, and what were they called? 

36. Who organized the first company of soldiers in Penn- 

sylvania? 

37. Who was the first Governor of Pennsylvania? 

38. When was John Evans appointed Governor? How 

long did he rule, and who succeeded him ? 



264 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

39. When did Queen Anne's war begin and end, and how 

did it affect the American colonies ? 

40. Who held the lion's share of offices in Pennsylvania up 

to the year 1714? 

41. Who was Charles Goodkin ? Who was Sir William 

Keith ? 

42. When and where did Penn die, and how old was he ? 

43. How did the news of Penn's death affect the Indians? 

44. How many German families were in Pennsylvania at 

the beginning of the eighteenth century ? 

45. When did the Mennonists come to Pennsylvania? 

46. Where did the Germans settle, and where was the first 

German Reformed Church established ? 

47. When was paper money issued in Pennsylvania? 

48. Who was Patrick Gordon ? What can you say of his 

administration ? 

49. Give date of the first Roman Catholic service in Penn- 

sylvania. 

50. Who was Governor Thomas ? What can you say of 

his administration ? 

51. How did the word ^^ redemtioners'' get into Pennsyl- 

vania history? 

52. What can you say of the distress during Pontiac's 

war? 

53. What was the cause of the Wyoming battle ? 

54. Who was Governor Hamilton ? What can you say of 

his administration? 

55. How did the French and English regard each other's 

possessions in America? 

56. What can you say of Governor Dinwiddle? 

57. What can you say of Fort Du Quesne, and where and 

by whom was Fort Necessity erected? 

58. What can you say of Robert H. Morris? 

59. Give a brief history of Edward Braddock. 

60. Give a brief history of Benjamin Franklin. 

61. What young man was on Braddock's staff? 



HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 265 

(32. Who gave Braddock advice concerning the carrying 
on of war in trackless forests? 

63. What befell Braddock ; and how did his death affect 

the soldiers? 

64. Give an account of Washington's bravery, and recite 

his advice while on Braddock' s staff. 

65. Who became commander-in-chief, upon the death of 

Braddock, of all the American forces? 
Q^. State the object of Franklin's dialogue, published dur- 
ing the military campaign of 1756. 

67. What was the character and result of the campaign of 

1757? 

68. What war in 1762 disturbed the Colonies? 

69. What conspiracy was formed in 1763 ; and who was 

the leader? 

70. What can you say of Colonel Bouquet ; and when and 

where did he begin his march ? 

71. What can you say of General Forbes? 

72. When was Fort Du Quesne destroyed? 

73. What revolutionary fame belongs to Pennsylvania? 

74. When and to whom was the Declaration of Independ- 

ence read ? 

75. For what is "Independence Hall" memorable? 

76. What battle was fougiit to save Philadelphia? 

77. Who was General Wayne? 

78. Who commanded the British when they entered Phila- 

delphia ? 

79. What can you say of Forts Mifflin and Mercer? 

80. Who were victorious in the Battle of Germantown, and 

why was the battle lost ? 

81. What can you say of Valley Forge? 

82. In what county did Wayne's troops winter ; and what 

was their condition? 

83. Give a brief history of Wyoming Valley. 

84. What can you say of the Battle of Yorktown ? 

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266 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

85. Who were the Pennsylvania representatives at the con- 

ventions to consider changes in the Articles of Con- 
federation ? 

86. When did the Articles of Confederation end; and the 

United States begin ? 

87. Who owned Pennsylvania at the beginning of the 

Revolutionary War ? 

88. When did Pennsylvania take steps toward reconstruc- 

tion ? 

89. What was the object of the convention that met in 

Philadelphia, July 15th, 1776? 

90. Give date of the last vestige of proprietary authority 

in Pennsylvania. 

91. When was Pennsylvania made a State? 

92. When was the present organization of the State gov- 

ernment adopted ? 

93. When, where, and how was the Constitution of Penn- 

sylvania revised ? 

94. State what was done at the close of Mifflin's adminis- 

tration ? 

95. When did Harrisburg become the capital of the State ? 

96. When was the corner-stone of the capitol building 

laid? 

97. Tell how the Indian title to Pennsylvania was entirely 

extinguished. 

98. What do we mean by the /;4'' ^'if'^away ? 

99. Where was Fort Pitt? Fort Muncy? Fort Augusta? 

100. What was the foundation of Pittsburgh ? 

101. Who destroyed the settlements west of the AUegha- 

nies ? 

102. Where was the first court held west of the mountains ? 
108. When was Hannastown destroyed ? 

104. Tell all you can of Hannastown. 

105. From what, and when was Westmoreland County 

erected ? 

106. When did Greensburg become the county seat ? 



HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 267 

107. What county is the mother of counties west of the 

mountains ? 

108. Name the new counties taken from Westmoreland. 

When taken. 

109. What do we mean by the Whisky Rebellion ? 

110. When and by whom was the first number of the Pitts- 

burgh Gazette issued ? 

111. For what purpose and when was the Pennsylvania 

Population Company organized ? 

112. When was Westmoreland County settled? 

113. When did petroleum become an article of commerce ? 

114. What effect had the oil furor upon the country? 

115. Who was Commodore Perry? Describe his battle 

on Lake Erie. 

116. Recite Perry's dispatch to General Harrison, after the 

victory on the lake. 

117. What was the first notable public act passed by the 

Pennsylvania Legislature ? 

118. Where was the first railroad in America? 

119. Give a brief history of Robert Fulton. 

120. When and where was the first great turnpike in \mer- 

ica constructed ? * 

121. When did the first passenger trains run through from 

Philadelphia to Pittsburgh ? 

122. What important act did the Pennsylvania Legislature 

pass in 1834 ? 

123. When, where, and by whom was the first school 

opened west of the Delaware ? 

124. What can you say of the University of Pennsylvania? 

125. Who first taught chemistry in America? 

126. What can you say of Jefferson Medical College? 

127. Where was the first homoeopathic schools opened ? 

128. Who established the free schools in Pennsylvania ? 

129. When and where was the first Sabbath-school opened ? 

130. What were the public schools at one time called ; and 

why did they meet with intense opposition ? 



268 LTVE QUESTIONS. 

13i. Did the Secretary of the Commonwealth ever act as 
Superintendent of Schools? Under what act? 

132. What can you say of Thaddeus Stevens as a defender 

of the free-school system ? 

133. Who was Dr. Thomas H. Burrowes? 

134. When was the office of County Superintendent estab- 

lished? 

135. vState the number of State Superintendents of Com- 

mon Schools. Name them in order and time 
served. 
]3G. When and where was anthracite coal first discovered ? 

137. Who first discovered coal in the Lehigh region ? 

When ? 

138. Describe how Philip Ginter discovered coal. 

139. State how coal was discovered in the Schuylkill region. 

140. Give dates of the first attempts at steam navigation. 

141. When was coal first used as fuel for warming houses 

in Pennsylvania ? 

142. From what did Valley Forge take its name? 

143. Name the two counties in which there were furnaces 

and forges established before the Revolution. 

144. What can you say of William Denning's wrought-iron 

cannon ? 

145. When President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteer 

troops, at the beginning of the war, how many 
troops were asked of Pennsylvania ? 

146. What part did Pennsylvania take in the late Rebellion ? 

147. How did Lee enter Pennsylvania? 

148. Give a short history of such of the leading generals of 

Pennsylvania who took part in the late Rebellion. 

149. Give a short history of Andrew G. Curtin. Of John 

W. Geary. 

150. Who was the first Governor of Pennsylvania? 

151. Give a history of the Soldiers' Orphan Schools. 

152. State how the people of Pennsylvania compare with 

the inhabitants of other States. * 



CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA. 269 

153. Who was the first Governor under the Constitution 

of the State ? 

154. Who was the first Governor under the Constitution 

of 1838? 

155. Name the Pennsylvania soldiers of the Revolution 

who were presidents of the Continental Congress. 
150. Give a short history of General Arthur St. Clair. 
Give a brief history of Henry C. Hikok. Of J. P. 
Wickersham. 



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Constitution of Pennsylvania. 

1. What is the Constitution of Pennsylvania? 

2. Give some account of the making of the Constitution. 

3. What constitutes the Legislative Department of our 

State Government ? 

4. What officers constitute the Executive Department ? 

5. What officer is Supreme Executive ? 

6. State the provisions of the Constitution concerning the 

following-named officers, with respect to qualifica- 
tions, how chosen, term of service, and principal 
duties, viz. : Member of the House, Senator, Gov- 
ernor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of the Com- 
monwealth, Attorney General, Auditor General, 
State Treasurer, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Su- 
perintendent of Public Instruction, Judge of the 
Supreme Court, Judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas. 

7. What officers compose the Board of Pardons ? 

8. Of how many members is the House of Representatives 

composed ? 

9. How many Senators? 

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270 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

10. State in what legislative, senatorial, and judicial dis- 

trict you reside. 

11. Name the principal county officers, the princi])al town- 

ship or ward officers. 

12. Give the qualifications of a voter. 

13. Can persons who are not voters hold office ? 

14. What is the process of naturalization ? 

15. Distinguish between a citizen and a voter. 

16. When does the general election for State and county 

officers take place ? 

17. When does the election for township, borough, and 

city officers take place ? 

18. What is the use of habeas corpus; and what is provided 

with respect to it ? 

19. Describe the process of legislation by which a bill be- 

comes a law. 

20. What is necessary that a town may become a city? A 

town a borough ? 

21. Give the process of amending the Constitution. 

22. What do you mean by preamble, and why does not the 

Constitution of Pennsylvania begin as the Constitu- 
tion of the United States? 

23. When was the present organization of the State gov- 

ernment planned and adopted ? 

24. What do you mean by the Supreme Executive Council ? 

25. State when the Constitution of the State was amended. 







CHAPTER XL 
Literature. 

1. Distinguish between English literature and American 

literature. 

2. What do you mean by the literature of a country ? 

3. What is literature, and what does the term mean ? 

4. In how many forms does literature exist ? 

5. Define poetry, and name the kinds of poetry. 

G. Distinguish between an epic and a narrative poem. 

7. Give examples of epic poems ; of narrative poems. 

8. Distinguish between didactic and pastoral poetry. 

9. Distinguish between dramatic and humorous poetry. 

10. Distinguish between lyric and elegiac poetry. 

11. Give examples of didactic poetry; of pastoral poetry. 

12. Give examples of humorous poetry ; of dramatic poetry. 

13. Give examples of lyric poetry ; of elegiac poetry. 

14. Recite a brief extract from Milton's Paradise Lost. ■ 

15. Recite a brief extract from Tennyson's Enoch Arden. 

16. Recite a brief extract from Gray's Elegy. 

17. Recite an extract from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 

18. Recite a brief extract from Cowper'sy<?/z;2 Gilpin. 

19. Recite extracts from Shakespeare's Hamlet. 

20. Recite extracts from Pope's Essay on Man. 

21. Recite an extract from Bryant's Thanatopsis. 

22. Define prose, and name the kinds of prose. 

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272 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

23. Distinguish between history and biography. 

24. Distinguish between a treatise and discourse. 

25. What is a novel ? A letter? A review? An essay? 

26. With whom did English literature begin ? 

27. What do we mean by the Age of Chaucer? 

28. What do we mean by the Age of Caxton ? 

29. Will you name the nine ages of English literature? 

30. Will you give the dates of each of the nine periods in 

English literature? 

31. Name Shakespeare's best tragedies. 

32. Name Shakespeare's best comedies. 

33. Distinguish between a tragedy and a comedy. 

34. Name Shakespeare's historical plays. 

35. Tell what you can of Longfellow. Name his most 

noted works. 

36. Mention the most prominent authors in the United 

States. 

37. Name tw^o of the leading historians in the United 

States. 

38. Name the periods into which the history of American 

literature is divided. 

39. Name two great writers of each iVmerican period. 

40. What novelists and historians lived in Dr. Johnson's 

time? Name their most noted works. 

41. Tell what you can of Goldsmith, and of his works. 

42. Who wrote the Canterbury Tales, and how did they 

get this name ? 

43. What work shows Chaucer to be the best example of 

story-telling? 

44. When did Chaucer live? Name his greatest work. 

45. What eminent literary men were living in England at 

the time of Chaucer? 

46. Of whom was it said, and who said, "The wisest, 

brightest, meanest of mankind ? ' ' 

47. State the peculiarities of Cowper as a man and a writer. 

48. Name Scott's contemporaries, as great writers. 



LITERATURE. 273 

.49. Name the works of Scott ; and in what form of literature 
did he first write ? 

50. Who was styled "The greatest diplomatist of the 

century?" 

51. Who was "The father of English poetry?" 

52. Of whom was it said, " The first among biographers ? " 

53. Who was the "Wizard of the North?" Why so called? 
44. Tell what you can of the history of the composition of 

Pai'adise Lost. 
55. Distinguish between Milton and Dante, concerning 

the general character of their imagery. 
5G. What do we mean by the machinery of an epic poem ? 

57. What is alliteration? Does Milton use it in his Para- 

dise Lost? Give examples. 

58. In what senses, now unusual, does Milton employ (in 

Book I ) the following words : battle, witiiessed, 
urges, fail, vast, afflicted, populous, frequent, prone I 

59. Give the birthplace of Shakespeare ; of Milton ; of 

Cowper ; of Byron ; of Tennyson ; of Bacon ; of 

Goldsmith ; of Hume. 
GO. What can you say of the personal appearance of Byron ? 

of Cowper ? of Milton ? of Bacon ? of Goldsmith ? 

of Shakespeare ? of Hume ? 
(11. Give the birthplace of Bryant; of Longfellow; of 

Whittier ; of Lowell ; of Holmes ; of Poe ; of Saxe ; 

of Taylor ; of Alice Gary ; of Harte. 
G2. What can you say of the personal appearance and 

education of Irving? of Prescott ? of Bancroft ? of 

Beecher ? of Webster ? of Everett ? of Longfellow ? 

of Saxe ? of Whittier? of Poe ? of Jefferson ? 
G3. Who were England's greatest prose writers? 
G4. Who are England's greatest prose writers at present? 
()5. Who are the greatest prosi writers in the United States? 
(>G. What were the last words of Goethe ? 
G7. What selections of Longfellow have you studied? 
G8. What selections of Whittier have you studied ? 



274 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

69. What selections of Bryant have you studied ? 

70. What selections of Gray have you studied ? 

71. What selections of Irving have you studied? 

72. Give dates of birth and death of Goldsmith ; of 

Burns; of Addison ; of Scott ; of Milton ; of Shakes- 
peare ; of Chaucer ; of Tennyson ; of Milton ; of 
Byron ; of Bacon ; of Spencer ; of Bryant ; of Ir- 
ving ; of Gray ; of Whittier ; of Longfellow ; of 
Taylor; of Prescott ; of Hume. 

73. Whom does the world consider the better historian, 

Macaulay or Hume ? 

74. How many of England's greatest writers were bachelors? 

75. How many of America's greatest writers had domestic 

troubles ? 
7G. What can you say of Mrs. Sigourney? 

77. What can you say of Mrs. Hemans? 

78. Who wrote T/ie Spectator? Give a sketch of the 

author's life, 

79. Who wrote " From Greenland's Icy Mountains? " 

80. What can you say of the habits of Scott? of Willis? 

of Channing? of Dickens? of Poe? of Charlotte 
Bronte? of Tom Moore? of Pope ? 

Note. — To illustrate what we mean by the habits of authors. Ad- 
dison used to pace up and down the long hall at Holland House, 
before he was ready for his pen; Pope worked himself into a high 
state of excitement; Lamb smoked ; and Carlyle takes a good, vigor- 
ous English walk of several miles (far enough to get himself into a 
glow), and then is ready for his pen. 

81. What can you say of Carlyle; of his character and of 

his works ? Which is his most noted work ? 

82. Who is styled the " marvelous boy? " 

83. Name the author of each of the following works, and 

mention another work by each author : The Tale 
of a Tub ; Sketch-Book-; Evangeline { The Rivals ; 
The Giaour ; Robi7ison Crusoe ; Pickwick Papers. 



LITERATURE. 275 

84. Who were the so-called "Lake-school" poets; and 

why called " Lake-school ? " 

85. Who were the great literary impostors of the latter half 

of the eighteenth century? 

86. Who wrote Gulliver's Travels; and what was the 

author's intent ? 

87. In what was the author of Gulliver's Travels sadly 

disappointed ; and how did he seek revenge? 

88. Goldsmith, as a writer, excelled in fiction, in poetry, 

and in history. Mention a work written by him in 
each of these departments. 

89. Give a sketch of the life of Scotland's greatest poet, 

and mention two of his most popular poems., 

90. Sketch the life of Coleridge ; mention his works, and 

give an extract of his most noted production. 
OL Name Burns' s contemporaries. Name some of his 
best known works, and give extracts of them. 

92. Distinguish between the writers Johnson and Jonson. 

93. Show that George Eliot was a greater novelist than 

Charlotte Bronte. 

94. What can you say of Burke as a writer?' 

95. Name and classify the writers of the Elizabethan 

age. 

96. In what respects are the works of Lord Surrey inter- 

esting in the history of English literature ? 

97. What do we mean by the Shakespearian-Bacon con- 

troversy ? 

98. Give the author of each of the following works : De- 

cli?te and Fall of the Roman Empire^ Oliver Twisty 
Cotter' s Salur day Night. Vicar of Wakefield. Uto- 
pia. Novufu Organum. Childe Harold. 

99. Describe the stanza in which the Cotter' s Saturday 

Night is written. 

100. Who were the chief writers of Queen Anne's reign? 

101. Recite extracts from Hamlet, Macbeth, Merchant of 

Venice, Julius Ccesar, and Richard III. 



276 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

102. Name two of the most noted works by the author of 

Lays of Ancient Rojne^ 

103. Name the works by the author oi Sartor Resartus. 

104. Mention the leading female poets, novelists, and his- 

torians of America, now living. 

105. Who is considered ''the greatest of female poets?" 

106. Which is considered the greater poet, Bryant or 

Longfellow ? State your reasons. 

107. Who was considered the greatest journalist of this 
/ country? Sketch his life and education. 

108. Who are considered the leading journalists of this 

country ? 

109. In what did Horace Greeley excel other journalists? 

110. Mention the leading " Reviews" of this country. 

111. Name the leading " monthly magazines ' ' of this coun- 

try, and the editors of each. 

112. What author has given us the best translation of 

Homer ? 

113. Name the prominent humorists of this country. 

1 14. Who are considered the \Qdidmg free-thinkers of the age ? 

115. Mention four of the leading theologians of the age. 

116. Who wrote Vanity Fair? Daniel Deronda? Hudi- 

bras .? Lai la Rookh ? Enoch Arden ? Hyperion ? 

117. Who said " Man wants but little here below, 

Nor wants that little long ? ' ' 

118. Who said " I'd rather be right than be president? "„ 

119. Sketch the life of Bayard Taylor, mention his works, 

and give extracts of two of his most noted works. 

120. Who is the author of each of the following sayings : 

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever?" "Where 
ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise?" "Art is 
long and time is fleeting?" "All is not gold that 
glistens ? " "To beard the lion in his den? " "I, 
the heir of all ages ? " " Want of decency is want 
of sense?" "Ill blows the wind that profits no- 
body?" "Brevity is the soul of wit?" 



LITERATURE. 277 

121. Who said '' To rear the tender thought, 

To teach the young idea how to shoot ? " 

1:^2. Whose identity was concealed under each of the fol- 
lowing pseudonyms: ''Mark Twain," "George 
Eliot," "L. P:. L.," "Currer Bell," "Artemus 
Ward," ''Timothy Titcomb," "Boz," "Peter 
Parle)^" "Josh Billings," " Petroleum V. Nasby," 
" Miles O'Reilly," " Grace Greenwood," " Fanny 
Fern," "Gath?" 

123. Mention some of the principal causes that tend to re- 

tard the development of a national literature in the 
United States. 

124. Who wrote the following : "The Bridge of Sighs," 

"The Deserted Village," " Thanatopsis," "Paul 
Revere's Ride," " The Hours of Death," "Evan- 
geline," "The House of Seven Gables," "The 
Alhambra," " Locksley Hall." 

125. In what work do we find each of the following char- 

acters : " Leatherstocking," " Wouter Van Twil- 
ler," " Baltus Von Slingerland," "Bernard Lang- 
don," "Hayle," and "Kelso?" 

126. Write an essay on the poetry of Whittier. 

127. Where did the author get the groundwork for " Evan- 

geline ?" 

128. At what age was the author when he wrote "Thana- 

topsis?" 

129. What are the qualities that are chiefly characteristic of 

the Anglo-Saxon literature ; and the causes thereof? 

130. Contrast Whittier's poetry with that of O. W. Holmes. 

131. What was the character of the literature of the period 

of Restoration ? 

132. Sketch the lives of Goethe and Schiller, and mention 

their most noted works. 

133. Do you think Enoch Arden did right in keeping se- 

cret his identity? 

134. How were Enoch Arden's last days passed? 

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278 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

135. Did Annie Arden do right in accepting the hand of 

Philip Lee ? 

136. Had you been in Enoch Arden's place, would you 

have taken the same course ? Give your reasons. 

137. What sign did Annie Arden seek from the Bible; and 

with what results? 

138. What can you say of the personal appearance of Ed- 

mund Spenser? 

139. The fourth verse of Cotter' s Saturday Night is in quo- 

tation marks ; why ? From what author is it 
quoted ? 

140. Can you regard Burns as an illustration of the adage, 

Poeta nascitur, non fit ? 

141. To what habit had Burns become addicted ? Did he 

overcome this habit ? 

142. What is meant by the statement, '' Goldsmith was an 

intensely subjective poet ? ' ' 

143. Tell all you can of Macaulay. Mention his works. 

144. Why did Spenser call his greatest work Faery Queene ? 

145. Where will you find literary reference to " Mrs. Part- 

ington," '' Thanatopsis," ''Alice and Phoebe 
Gary," "George Eliot," "Gulliver," "Bret 
Harte," "Raven," "Sam Weller," " Currer 
Bell," "Prisoner of Ghillon," "Robin Hood," 
"Boz," "Little Nell," "Rip Van Winkle," 
" Fanny Fern," " Mrs. Bardell," " Wizard of the 
North," "Will Carleton," "Bob Acres?" 

Literary Recreations. 

146. Name the three essentials that make prose literature. 

147. Explain why the rules of poetry are more severe than 

those of prose. 

148. Why have the English written so much sea-poetry ? 

149. What became of the literature of the original Britons? 

150. In what manner was old English poetry written ? 



LITERATURE. 279 

151. Describe the poem of Beowulf; what it tells of man- 

ners and customs. 

152. Tell the story and end of Beowulf. 

153. Who was Caedmon ? What does his poem prove? 
15-1. Describe Hild's monastery and surroundings. 

155. In what did English song begin? 

156. Give the history of Aldhelm. 

157. How did Aldhelm sing to the traders? 

158. What do you know of the song of Brunanburth ? 

159. What do you know of the song of Maldon ? 

160. With whom does all English prose begin ? At what 

date ? 

161. Where was the home of English literature? 

162. Who was the first translator of a portion of the Bible? 

163. Explain why French literature influenced English 

poetry and not its prose. 

164. Describe Ormin's Ormulum. 

165. What class of literature interested the Norman his- 

torians ? 

166. Give a summary of the stories told by the Welsh 

priest. 

167. What is said of the Idylls of the Kings ? 

168. What is said of Layamous Brut ? 

169. Tell the story of Robin Hood. 

170. Distinguish between Wyclif and Langland. 

171. Tell who wrote Piers, the Plowman, and how he de- 

scribes himself. 

172. What translation did much to fix the English lan- 

guage ? 

173. In what language did Wyclif meet his accusers ? 

174. Describe John Gower's influence as a story-teller. 

175. Relate the incident with Richard II. 

176. Whose tales did Chaucer read ? 

177. Give Chaucer's definition of a gentleman. 

178. Where in literature does Sir John Mandeville belong? 

179. What is the definition of Scottish poetry? 



280 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

180. Where do we find the origin of English fiction? 

181. With what work begins the later Elizabethan poetry? 

182. What is the character of Spenser's Shepherd'' s Calen- 

der ? 

183. Explain why the drama in England began in religion. 

184. What is said of the epilogue to The Tempest? 

185. With whom did the Elizabethan drama die? 

186. What can you say of Jeremy Taylor and Richard 

Baxter ? 

187. Of what did the songs of epigrams treat ? 

188. Define satirical, pastoral, rural, and town poetry. 

189. Explain why Milton for twenty years wrote but little 

poetry. 

190. What is said o{ Paradise Regained? 

191. What is Pilgrim' s Progress, in the language of the 

people ? 

192. In what manner did Dryden and Pope treat man ? 

193. What was Bacon's influence on science ? 
194:. What can you say of Sir Isaac Newton? 

195. Distinguish briefly between the writings of Jeremy 

Taylor and Thomas Hoffes. 

196. What can you say of Bishop Butler's works? 

197. State the three positions in John Locke's Civil Gov- 

ernment. 

198. What is said of Locke's Essav on the Human Under- 

standing ? 

199. What novel did Sir Walter Scott create ? 

200. What is said of the histories written by Henry Hallam ? 

201. Describe Macaulay's History of England, as to style. 

202. State the opinions of Hume, in his Philosophy. 

203. Show why the writings and speeches of Edmund 

Burke exerted so much influence. 

204. What science did Adam vSmith create ; and what theory 

did he start ? 

205. Why is Samuel Johnson deemed the first literary man, 

as we know him to-day? Name his popular work. 



LITERATURE. 281 

206. What is said of the poems of Ossian ? 

207. What can you say of Chatterton and his writings ? 

208. What is said of Thompson's Seasons ? 

209. What are we brought face to face with in the tales of 

Crabbe ? 

210. What is said of Southey ? Of Coleridge ? 

211. Give an account of Wordsworth's youth and training. 

212. What can you say of Campbell's Pleasures of Hope ? 

213. What are the characteristics of Thomas Moore's 

poetry ? 

214. Name the post-Revolution poets. 

215. Why did Byron write in opposition to social morality ? 

216. Name the chief idea in Shelly's Queen Mab. 

217. Draw a parallel between Keats and Shelly. 

218. Name England's best present writers. What is said 

of one of them ? 

219. What is said of Tennyson's Idylls? 

220. Upon what depends the success of literature ? 

221. How was the literature of the colonial period influ- 

enced ? 

222. What is the character of the writings of George 

Washington ? 

223. Give an account of the Federalist. 

224. Who was the harbinger in the field of American 

romance ? 

225. Why were Cooper's novels so popular? 

226. Who stands pre-eminent in American literature ? 

227. Give the story of Benjamin Franklin. 

228. Who was Timothy Dwight? Can you name his 

works ? 

229. In what consists the charm of Irving's writings? 

230. Give a sketch of Channing. 

231. Give a summary of Jared Sparks's writings. • 

232. Describe the characteristics of Bryant's poetry. 

233. Explain the popularity of Longfellow's works. 

234. How has Whittier been characterized ? 

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282 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

235. Give a sketch of Holmes and Lowell, and name their 

writings. 
28(1. Name the advantages derived from the notices of 

books. 

237. Explain in what respect our literature is rich. 

238. Describe the influence of the essayists. 

239. What has been the effect of popular lectures ? 

240. Give a sketch of Hawthorne's style, and name his 

writings. 

241. Why was U'y/c/e Tom's Cabin so popular? 

242. Why does Stedman stand high as a critic ? 

243. Describe Bayard Taylor as an author. 

244. Explain the novelty of the writings of Joaquin Miller 

and Bret Harte. 

245. Give a description of J. G. Saxe's poetry. 

24G. What is said of Jim Bludso? How has he been com- 
plimented ? 

247. Name Mrs. Whitney's writings and Miss Alcott's. 

248. State the character of Miss Stuart's style and writings. 

249. What is said of Mrs. Spofford and Mrs. Burnett, as to 

their writings ? 

250. What literature has grown up recently? 

251. Name the authors and their works on church history. 

252. Name the authors and their works on jurisprudence 

and international law. 

253. What can you say of the author who said "Come, 

let us live for children ? " 




CHAPTER XII. 



DRA^^^ING. 



1. 

2. 
3. 
4. 



What is drawing? 

At wiiat age would you introduce drawing? 
Distinguish between mechanical and free-hand drawing. 
What is a line? What is a straight line? 
What instruments do mechanics use to make and test 
straight lines ? 

6. Distinguish between a horizontal line and a vertical 

line. Give examples. 

7. What are slanting lines? What parallel lines? 

8. Draw lines in several directions through the same 

point, and make equal distances from the point on 
all of them. 

9. Draw straight lines in different directions, and mark 

by the eye the same distance, once, on all of them. 

10. Divide a line into four equal parts. 

11. How do you h'sec^ a line ? How t7'isect a line ? 

12. Draw several vertical parallels, beginning alternately 

at top and bottom. 

13. Define an angle ; a right angle ; an obtuse angle ; an 

acute angle. Give examples. 

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284 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

14. What instrument is used in determining the kind of 

angle ? 

15. What is a surface? What a plane surface? 

16. What instrument is used to determine a plane surface ? 

17. Define a triangle ; an equilateral triangle ; an isosceles 

triangle ; a right-angled triangle ; an obtuse-angled 
triangle ; an acute-angled triangle. 

18. Define a square ; an oblong ; a rhombus ; a parallelo- 

gram ; a pentagon ; a hexagon. 

19. Draw two equal crossed squares. Place an equilateral 

triangle upon each side of a square. 

20. Use two equal obtuse-angled triangles in forming a 

balanced drawing. 

21. Construct squares of various sizes and in various posi- 

tions, first without their diagonals, and then with 
them. 

22. Draw a line cutting off one-fourth of a right angle from 

either of its sides. 

23. When is a figure or drawing balanced ? 

24. Use any number of either kind of triangles in forming 

a balanced drawing. 

25. Place a square upon each side of a square. 

26. Place equal oblongs, one upon each side of a square. 

27. Place a square upon each side of an equilateral triangle. 

28. What is a curve ; and when are curves parallel ? 

29. When are curves similar ? 

30. Define a radius ; an arc ; a diameter ; a chord ; an 

ellipse ; an oval ; a circle. 

31. Distinguish between a simple curve and a compound 

curve. 

32. What is a circumference ? What the centre of a circle ? 

33. Draw circular arcs in various positions, and of various 

radii. 

34. Distinguish between a plane angle and a solid angle. 

35. Construct a series of six figures ; of a solid ; and of a 

skeleton triangular pyramid. 



DRAWING. 285 

80. What do we mean by relative lengths and relative sizes? 
o7. What do we mean by angular proportions and linear 

proportions ? 
I>8. What useful exercises in distance., direction, and division 

can you give your pupils? 

39. What do we mean by unity, symmetry, and variety in 

drawing ? 

40. What is single symmetry ? What double symmetry ? 

41. Make various combinations of four equal acute-isosceles 

triangles. 

4:^. Make various combinations with four equal squares. 

43. Draw two vertical lines, each ten inches in length and 
three inches apart; connect their middle points by 
a straight line. 

4 1. Draw a triangle with two equal sides; make the un- 
equal side the longer axis of an ellipse. 

45. Draw a circle ; divide its circumference into eight 

equal parts; from each point of division, draw a 
chord to every third point. 

46. Mark two points so as to join them by a horizontal line, 

beginning to the left of the left-hand one, and draw 
to the right. 

47. Construct as many balanced drawings as possible by 

using two equal right-angled triangles. 

48. Draw a circle ; divide its circumference into six equal 

arcs ; draw the chords of these arcs ; from the centre 
of the circle draw radii to alternate points of division 
in the circumference. 

49. What is isometrical drawing? 

50. What is a perspective drawing, and what are projection 

drawings ? 

51. Draw six figures, three of a solid, and three of a skele- 

ton triangular prism. 

52. Draw a circle ; divide its circumference into five equal 

parts ; from each point of division draw a straight 
line to each alternate point of division. 



286 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

53. Distinguish between geometrical letters and free-hand 

letters. 

54. What is lettering ; and is it a part of drawing ? 

55. What are geometric symbols? 

56. What is a symbol ? Give examples. 

57. A monument is an emblem of what ? 

58. Of what is a broken monument a symbol ? 

59. The American flag is an emblem of what ? 

60. Of what is the oak a symbol ? The elm ? 

61. Of what is a straight line a symbol ? 

62. Distinguish between a symbol and a type. 

63. Distinguish between distance and direction in geomet- 

rical forms. 

64. Design a cup ; a vase ; a tumbler ; a hatchet ; an axe ; 

a cup and saucer ; a bird ; a plane ; a cart ; a jug ; 
a pig ; a horse ; a fish ; a rabbit ; a hand-saw ; a 
snail ; a pitcher and goblet ; a padlock ; a b.ook. 

65. Draw a square and both of its diagonals ; connect by 

straight lines the middle points of opposite sides ; 
divide the lines last drawn each into four equal 
parts ; from each point of division, excepting the 
middle, draw straight lines to the nearest angles of 
the square. 



Recreations in Dra^wing. 

^^. Make an isosceles triangle. 

67. Draw one line parallel to another, and let the two be 

three inches apart. 

68. Make a rhomboid ; a trapezoid ; a trapezium. 

69. Make a sextant, and write upon it its name. 

70. Place a hexagon in a circle. 

71. Divide a circle into eight equal parts. 

72. Place a circle in a square. 



DRAWING. 287 

73. Can you place a circle in an equilateral triangle ? 

74. Can you fit an equilateral triangle in a circle? 

75. Place two hexagons so that one angle of one hexagon 

may touch vertically one angle of the other. 
7(3. Divide a line into four equal parts. 

77. Divide a square into four equal and similar figures sev- 

eral ways, and give the name to each variety. 

78. Make a regular dodecagon. 

7^. Show how many hexagons may be made to touch one 
point. 

80. Can you fit a hexagon outside a circle. 

81. Can you make one square that shall be equal to the 

sum of two other squares ? 

82. Can you make a square that shall equal the difference 

between two squares ? 

83. Invent and construct as beautiful a star as you can. 

84. Can you place a circle in a triangle ? 

85. Change a square to an obtuse-angled isosceles triangle. 

86. Change a triangle into a rectangle. 

87. Can you place nine trees in ten rows of three in a 

row? 

88. Show by a figure how many cubes may be made to 

touch one cube. 

89. Can you convert a scalene triangle into a symmetrical 

trapezium ? 

90. Can you plant nineteen trees in nine rows of five in a 

row? 

91. Can you divide a line as any other line is divided? 

92. Divide a line into five equal parts. 

93. Can you place a square in a pentagon? 

94. Can you make a line of secants ? 

95. Make a few circles, and fit a secant to each. 

96. How would you construct an oval ? 

97. Show how a prolate spheroid is formed, and say what 

it reminds you of. 

98. Can you construct a parabola ? How ? 



288 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

99. Measure a few acute angles by the line of tangents. 
100. Make an angle and its tangent, and also its co- 
tangent. 

Note. — These recreations are intended to cultivate a taste for the 
study of Geometry. It is expected that teachers will first become in- 
terested, and then in an interesting way present the subject to their 
pupils fit for such exercises. 




CHAPTER XIII. 



Analysis of Sentences. 



1. Nor second he that rode sublime 
Upon the seraph wings of ecstasy, 
The secrets of the abyss to spy. 

— Complex Sentence. 



{ "that rode upon the serapli wings," 

1. Subject., "he," nwd'ijied by \ etc. — A ■positive clause ele- 

ine)it. 

2. Predicate^ "was second." 



3. Subject, "that." 



4. Predicate., "rode," 
modified by 



25 



- 1. "subhme." — Adjective used by poetical 
license as an adverb of place or 
manner. 

2. " upon the seraph wings of ecstasy." 
— Adverbial phrase of place. 

o. "the secrets of the abyss to spy." — 

Advei^bial phrase of cause. 

(289) 



290 LIVE QUESTIONS. 

2. Triumphal arch that fill'st the sky, 
When storms prepare to part ! 
I ask not proud philosophy 
To teach me what thou art. 

— Complex Sentence. 

1. Subject, "I." 

2. Predicate, ^^Siskuot,^' rnodified by < ^ . 

t — Adverbial phrase. 

" To teach me what thou art, triumphal 

3. Object, ynodified by -. arch that fill'st," etc. — Lifinitive uvih 

noun clause as object. 



4. Subject, " th ou , ■ ' 
ynodijied by 



"Triumphal arch that fill'st the sky, 
"When storms prepare to part." 

-Noun with adjective, and adjective clause. 



5. Pre(^ica/e, "art what." 

6. Subject, "that." 

^ r, T J. l,xi^^, J. ,, j-j: j l f "When stoniis prepare to part. " 

7. Predicatc,^^n\Vst," modified by ^ \ /^ . , , 

I — Adverbial clause. 

8. Object, "the sky." 

9. S^ibject, "storms." 

10. Predicate, "prepare," f 1. " when.'" — Adverbial word. 

modified by I 2. "to part." — Adverbial phi-ase. 



3. Laughing to one's self is impolite in company. 

— Simple Sentence. 

1. Subject, " laughing to one's self." 

2. Predicate, "is impolite," and f "in company." — Adverbial 

attribute, tnodified by I ^jArase. 



ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES. 291 

4. What art does for men, nature has done for 
animals, which are themselves incapable of art. 

— Complex Sentence. 



1. Subject, "nature." 

2. Predicate " has done,'' 

modified by 



"for animals, which are themselves 
incapable of 2ivi.''- —^Ad.verbial 
■phrase containing adjective clause. 



o. Object, "What art does for men." — [Noun clause), adjective 
clause. 

4. Subject, "art." 

r n 7- u ,1 1 )) j-^ J J r"for men." — Adverbial 

5. Predicate, "does," modiped by < 

t phrase. 

6. Object, "what." 

,., o 7- u LI 1,- 1, )) j-ji 1 1 r " themselves." — Reitective pro- 
t. Subject, '■^\N men, ^^ modified by < , /. ^ 

t nou7i in apposition. 

^.Predicate "are incapable," and attribute f " of art." — Ad- 
7)iodified by I verbial phrase. 



5. In the multitude of counselors there is safety. 

— Simple Seiitence. 



1. Subject, "safety." 



2. Predicate, " is" (exists), modified by 



1 . " there. ' ' — Expletive 

adverb. 

2. " In the multitude of 

counselors." — Ad- 
verbial phrase of 
place. 



292 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



6. No scene of life but has contributed much 
to remember. 

— Co7nplex Sentence. 

1. " No. " — Indejin'ite 7iurneral. 

2. "of life." — Restrictive ad- 
jective p/i rase. 

1. Subject, "scene," modified ht/ | o. u i^^^ (that not) has con- 
tributed much to re- 
member." — Restrictive 
adjective clause. 

2. Predicate, "is" (exists) tniderstood. 

3. Subject, "that." 

4. Predicate, "has not contrilnitcd." 

r r\i • ^ u ■. \. 1) T-^ 7 I ( " to remenibor." — Ad'iective 

5. Object, ^'■inyxdh,^' ynod.iped by < -J 

y 'phrase. 



7. What he spake, thongli it lacked form a 
little, was not like madness. 

— Cotnplex Sentence. 

1. Subject, " What he spake " {noun clause). 

f 1. "madness." — Adverbial phrase 

2. Pr^Ziw^c, "was not like," \ element of di recti on. 

and attribute, inodifed by 2. " though itlacked form alittle." 

— Adverbial clause. 

3. Subject, "he." 

4. Predicate, "spake." 

5. Object, "what." 

6. Sub'ject, "it" (rvhat he s/iake). 



7. Predicate, " lacked," niodifed by 

8. Object, "form." 



[ "a little" (elliptical for) 

I to a little degree. — 

j Adverbial phrase of 

1 degree. 



ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES. 



293 



8. Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, 
The Terence of P^ngland, the mender of hearts, 
A flattering painter, wlio made it his care 
'I'o draw men as they ought to l)e, not as they are. 

— Complex Sentence. 



1. " luiv inducted Ills parts." — P<ir- 
tic'i.phd pitrase. 

2. "The Terence of England."— 
Noun v)itJi adjuncts in opposi- 
tion. 

Subject, " Ciunborland ,'■ | ., ^ xi j cv, i. ,, at 

•' : ' ■>. " the mender or hearts." — Norm 

modified by -ji i.l • a- 

^ ivith adjunct in apposition. 

4. " A flattering painter, who made 
it," etc. — Noun in apposition, 
lait/i an adjective clause am,07uj 
its adjuncts. 

Predicate -Mies," inodijied by \ ^- '' ^^^^e."- Adverbial element 

0/ place. 
Subject, "who." 

_^ ,. , f "his care. " — Adverbial pJi rase 

Predicate ^^ mnae,'' modified by J r ,• .- 

of direction. 

" To draw men as they ought to be." 
Object, ^'■M,'^ modified by - — Infinitive enlarged by object 

and by adverbial clause. 
Subject, "they." 

Prec^icaie, " oiiffhttobe," f ,, ,, ., , . 

. ° ' ^ "as." — Adverb of mangier. 

modified by 1 

Subject, " who." 
Predicate, "made not his care." 



"to draw men as they are." — In- 
finitive cnlar<ied by object and by 
adverbial clause. 

Subject, "they." 

D ]■ J w ,, / • i.\ 1-^ 1 t f "as." — Adverb of man- 

Predicate, "are" (exist), modified by < •' 

V. ner. 



1 0. Object, "it," modi_fied by 

11. 
12. 



294 



LIVE QUESTIONS. 



9, They, nevertheless, increased in numbers so 
rapidly, that they were able to re-conquer their native 
Palestine. — Compou7id Sentence. 

The sentences are connected by the co-ordinate. Illative conjunc 
tion ^'^ so that.^^ 

1. Subject, " they." 

f 1. "in numbers." — Adverbial 

phrase. 

2. Predicate, "increased," ., ^ -ji ^ ai i 
' ) I '> "rapidly." — Adverb. 



modified lii/ 

3. Subject, "they." 

4. PredJcate, "were able," 

and able is modified by 



I ;]. "nevertheless." — Compound a d- 
[ verb of degree. 

1. "to re-conquer their native 
Palestine." — Oericndial ad- 
verbial j>firase. 



10. The Dutch florist that sells tulip-bulbs for their 
weight in gold, laughs at the antiquary that pays a 
great price for a rusty lamp. — Complex Sentence. 



1. Subject, "florist," modified by 



1. "the."' 

2. " Dutch." 

3. "that sells tulip-bulbs for 
their weight in gold. — 
Restrictive adjectivephrase. 

2. Predicate, " laughs at," [com,pound verb). 

I 1. "the." 

I 2. " that pays a great price 

3. Object, ^^ nnikiuary, " w-odlfied by for a rusty lamp. — 

Restrictive adverbial 



4. Subject, "that." 

5. Predicate, "sells," m.odijied by 



pfvrase. 

/ " for their weight in gold."- 
l Adverbial phrase of cause. 

."— .iV( 
jective. 



c r\i ■ V i£i. IV. M j-^ J A I "tulip." — .Noun used as ad 

(). Object, " bulbs," 'modified by • ^ 

7. Subject, "that" (restrictive relative). 

8. Predicate, "pays." 

9. Object, "price." 



